Systems in police knowledge management

Abstract EN

The variety of policing knowledge requires flexibility in knowledge management approaches.

Professional knowledge for patrolling police officers might be managed according to the organization development school by stimulating individual knowledge work as well as knowledge transfer between police officers as knowledge workers.

Professional knowledge in the value shop might be managed according to the knowledge resource school by mobilizing strategic knowledge resources in each primary activity of the value shop.

Also, the knowledge strategy school might be applied to the value shop, as some policing cases and / or some primary activities might require an expert-based organization with a growth strategy, while a flow strategy or a stock strategy might be more appropriate for other criminal cases and / or value shop activities.

The globalization of crime requires globalization of policing.

One approach to globalization of policing is international police operations, where international police participation provides a unique chance to learn about local criminal elements, their surroundings and networks and about international criminal activities.

For example, Norwegian police officers participated in Kosovo, thereby learning more about illegal trade in drugs, arms and humans that is growing in Norway.