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Community policing done differently? Analysis of daily activities
Thu, September 4, 1:00 to 2:15pm, Communications Building (CN), CN 2106Abstract
Police services internationally have developed a wide range of educational initiatives and specific programs to adapt their interactions and interventions with individuals in a state of vulnerability. The province of Quebec (Canada) is no stranger to this trend, as several specialized intervention program initiatives have been developed and implemented, particularly in the last twenty years. This study aims to document and measure the effects of one such program: RÉSO (Réseau d’entraide social et organisationnel [Social and Organizational Assistance Network]), implemented by the Longueuil police service near the city of Montreal in 2021. The objective of this new program is to intervene preventatively in specific sectors of the Longueuil agglomeration. RÉSO officers are defined as ‘consultation officers’ anchored in key principles: discourse, trust, good judgment, prevention, intercultural, multidirectional partiality, care and proximity. In order to document and measure the effects of the RÉSO program, two primary objectives are set: (1) The evaluation of the implementation and deployment of the RÉSO team, and (2) the evaluation of the effects of the RÉSO team’s interventions on the socio-judicial trajectories of the targeted people and on their perceptions. To do so, an in-depth documentary analysis of the program including a vast literature review, in person observations, interviews with various key stakeholders (people in vulnerable situations and their loved ones, police officers and social and health workers) and GPS geographic and temporal analysis have been utilised. The results presented at this conference will include a comprehensive literature review and the preliminary results collected in regard to the RÉSO team members’ daily activities.