MONJARDET, Dominique

La police de proximité : ce qu'elle n'est pas - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1999

The idea of local policing may be defined equally well by what it is as opposed to what it is not. By sketching successive opposing strategies it is possible to identify the form of local policing, as it is, or as it ought to be, put into operation in France. Long since at the centre of debate and reform projects, local policing stands for neither community policing nor policing detached from central authority, nor, moreover, for policing for better-off neighbourhoods