POLICE REFORM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: BETWEEN COMMUNITY POLICING AND DEMOCRATIC POLICING
POLICE REFORM IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: BETWEEN COMMUNITY POLICING AND DEMOCRATIC POLICING
Author(s): Petar AtanasovSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Институт за социолошки и политичко-правни истражувања
Keywords: police reform; human rights; community policing; democratic policing; the Republic of Macedonia
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the substantial changes that were imposed on the Macedonian police after 2001 and the impact which the external intervention of the EU and OSCE has had on police reform in this country. This intervention concentrated on transforming the existing, state-centred police structure into a democratic institution which, operating in accordance with the ECHR, signed by the Republic of Macedonia in 1995, aimed at becoming a service to all the citizens. The main question is, whether and how imported universalist ideas and models, such as community policing and human rights, can work in an ethnically divided society. It will be argued that community policing as implemented in practice can hardly become a form of democratic policing as long as the dominant processes in society are burdened by the supremacy of ethnicised politics over the law.
Journal: Annual of the Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research
- Issue Year: XLIII/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 21-45
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English