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Independent Police Complaints Bodies: Results of Cross-Country Comparative Research on Police Accountability
Thu, September 4, 8:00 to 9:15am, Communications Building (CN), CN 2106Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel
Abstract
Over the past few decades, Independent Police Complaints Bodies (IPCBs) have been established in many countries. However, the knowledge on what IPCBs do in practice and what results they may achieve is still limited. This panel presents empirical insights from comparative research on IPCBs in five countries (Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK) that was carried out in the research project Police Accountability – Towards International Standards (2021-2024/25). The panel brings together contributions on several comparative aspects such as structural weaknesses of IPCBs, the way in which IPCBs handle complaints around mental health, citizens’ reactions to IPCBs and the ambivalence of what independence means and requires.
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Chairs
Hartmut Aden, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin Intitute for Safety and Security Research (FÖPS Berlin)
Marc Alain, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Individual Presentations
Independent Police Complaint Bodies as voluntarily weak organisations: observations from four years of research over five different democratic countries - Marc Alain, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Police Accountability and Mental Health – Perceptions of Protection - Sonja John, Berlin School of Economics and Law; Vicky Hébert Brassard, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Police: Confidence is good, but so is control. Attitudes in the population towards police control and dealing with misconduct - Marie Theres Piening, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Julia Habermann, Ruhr-University Bochum; Tobias Singelnstein, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
The independence of external police complaints bodies – aspects and impact of a complex concept - Hartmut Aden, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin Intitute for Safety and Security Research (FÖPS Berlin)