Trust, Blame and Confidence in Police Organizations: A Deliberative Case Study

我建议进行的这项研究将探索警察组织内部，特别是南威尔士警察内部发生的信任、责备和信心。它将通过对警察部队的正式和非正式工作做法进行深入的案例研究，来探索潜在的“责备文化”的后果。它将专注于避险的原因和程度，探索员工对组织内责任文化的恐惧。它将寻求了解当前做法对警队文化和运作的影响，以及这些做法如何影响其员工对组织正义和警察合法性的感受。这项研究将补充现有的文献，这些文献已经被用来研究内部“责备文化”的存在，并将通过探索参与者关于这种文化是如何表现的以及它所产生的影响的经验来扩展这一点。出于这个原因，这项研究很重要，旨在为这种感觉的发生提供洞察力。这项研究项目旨在通过以下研究问题加深我们现有的理解：对风险、指责和审查的态度是如何形成的？对于南威尔士警察局的工作人员来说，指责、风险厌恶和缺乏信任和信心的问题在多大程度上是一个问题？是什么影响了这些态度，它们又是如何影响行为的？已经确定了解决这些问题的方法吗？如果是，它们已经实施了吗？如果没有，原因是什么？目前存在哪些障碍来阻止变化的发生？这些问题的目的是识别和探索任何“责备文化”的来源和程度，以及它具体给南威尔士警方带来了什么问题。重要的是，随后要确定哪些解决办法可以解决这些问题，也要确定过去提出了哪些解决办法，这些办法是否已经实施，以及结果如何。关键是要探索为什么这些解决方案没有被利用，以避免重复过去的任何工作。

The research I propose to conduct will explore the occurrence of feelings of trust, blame and confidence within police organisations, specifically South Wales Police. It will explore the consequences of a potential 'blame culture' by an intensive case study into the police force's formal and informal working practices. It will focus on the cause and extent of risk aversion, exploring staff fears of a blame culture within the organisation. It will seek to understand the effects of current practices on the culture and workings of the force, and how these impact upon feelings of organisational justice and police legitimacy by its employees. The research will supplement an existing body of literature that has been conducted into the existence of an internal 'blame culture' and will expand on this by exploring the experiences of the participants as to how this culture is represented and the effects it has. The research is important for thisreason and will aim to provide insight into why such feelings occur. This research project aims to deepen our existing understanding via the following research questions:How are attitudes to risk, blame and scrutiny formed?To what extent are issues of blame, risk aversion and lack of trust and confidence an issue for staff within South Wales Police?What influences these attitudes and how do they affect behaviour?Have methods for addressing these problems already been identified? If so, have they been implemented, and if not, why not?What barriers exist at present to prevent changes from occurring?These questions aim to identify and explore the source and extent of any 'blame culture', and what problems it specifically causes for South Wales Police. It is important to subsequently identify what solutions may solve these issues, but also what has been proposed in the past, whether this has been implemented, and what the results were. It will be key to explore why these solutions have not been utilised, in order to avoid repetition of any past work.