Abstract
Practice collaboration between policing and health practitioners is now commonplace, including the growth of mental health intervention teams in policing organisations. In this chapter, we extend the work already developed by scholars aligned with the Law Enforcement and Public Health conference, and consider the practice implications of moving upstream and away from a reliance upon downstream crisis intervention. In this shift, we suggest that the concept of vulnerability may assist policing organisations to reconceptualise some of their work as public health intervention.
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See for example, the 2016 LEPH conference agenda, which is dominated by these two streams of enquiry.
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The public health advantages of parsimonious policing are no more obvious than in the zero-tolerance policing of minor traffic, vehicle or public offences in the US that have resulted in officer-involved shootings.
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This highlights the issues identified by Bartkowiak-Théron and Asquith (2015) in the practice siloes of current approaches to policing vulnerability.
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Asquith, N.L., Bartkowiak-Théron, I. (2017). Police as Public Health Interventionists. In: Asquith, N., Bartkowiak-Théron, I., Roberts, K. (eds) Policing Encounters with Vulnerability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51228-0_7
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