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Civilian Oversight for Democratic Policing and Its Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles for Improved Police Accountability and Better Security in Africa and Beyond

In: Corruption, Sustainable Development and Security Challenges in Africa

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  • Kempe Ronald Hope

    (Development Practice International)

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This chapter provides an analytical review of formal civilian oversight for democratic policing, outlining the benefits as well as the key challenges such oversight encounters. It extends the comparative analysis about formal civilian oversight for democratic policing by providing a much more international perspective, beyond Africa, including examples of the use of the various classifications and approaches to such oversight. Currently, only two African nations (Kenya and South Africa) have mechanisms of independent civilian oversight of police accountability. Drawing on the author’s field experience, it then offers some insights on the required framework and environment for overcoming the civilian oversight challenges in pursuit of much more improved police accountability and better internal security in Africa.

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  • Kempe Ronald Hope, 2023. "Civilian Oversight for Democratic Policing and Its Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles for Improved Police Accountability and Better Security in Africa and Beyond," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Corruption, Sustainable Development and Security Challenges in Africa, chapter 0, pages 177-216, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-031-32229-7_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32229-7_8
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