RT Article
T1 ‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and COVID-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand
JF Policing and society
VO 31
IS 5
SP 621
OP 637
A1 Deckert, Antje
A2 Long, Nicholas J.
A2 Aikman, Pounamu Jade
A2 Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran
A2 Davies, Sharyn Graham
A2 Trnka, Susanna
A2 Fehoko, Edmond
A2 Holroyd, Eleanor
A2 Jivraj, Naseem
A2 Laws, Megan
A2 Pukepuke, Reegan
A2 Roguski, Michael
A2 Simpson, Nikita
A2 Sterling, Rogena
A2 Tunufa’i, Laumua
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1763010368
AB International media have praised Aotearoa New Zealand for its response to the coronavirus pandemic. While New Zealand Police played a fundamental role in enforcing pandemic control measures, the policing landscape remained plural. This article employs Loader [2000. Plural policing and democratic governance. Social and legal studies, 9 (3), 323–345] model of plural policing to understand responses to public health emergencies. It identifies two forms of policing which were evident in Aotearoa during the COVID-19 lockdown that should be added to Loader’s model. First, we argue that contexts with colonial history require that the model not only includes by-government and below-government policing but also next-to-government policing by Indigenous peoples – such as the ‘community checkpoints’ run by Māori. Second, and further developing Loader’s model, we argue that the category of below-government policing be expanded to include ‘peer-to-peer policing’ in which government responsibilizes members of the public to subject each other to large-scale surveillance and social control. Since plural forms of policing affect each other’s functionality and legitimacy, we argue that what happens at the synapses between policing nodes has profound implications for the process of community building. Because community building is essential to fighting pandemics, we conclude that the policing of pandemic intervention measures may require an expanded understanding and practice of plural policing to support an optimal public health strategy.
K1 Indigenous rights
K1 plural policing
K1 next-to-government policing
K1 Covid-19
DO 10.1080/10439463.2021.1924169