| Every Dutch police force has been asked by the government to develop initiatives on enhancing integrity; this as part of a wider move to address ethical issues in public life generally. The authors have both been involved in different ways in following these developments in policing and government. They draw here partly on data collected as part of an international survey conducted by Prof. Carl Klockars and his research colleages in four countries: the USA, Croatia, Poland and Slovenia. They were involved in the project in the Netherlands; the research instrument was translated into Dutch and distributed in three police forces. The results will be compared with the findings from the other four countries. The data will also be placed in the context of current developments in the Netherlands were integrity receives a prominent place; the authors will examine the findings especially in relation to the wide-ranging efforts being made to institutionalize both positive control through integrity programmes and negative control (with internal investigations; much of this is quite innovative in the Netherlands where generally standards of conduct in public institutions are considered to be high). One element in pushing for change has been a number of scandals in policing and public life which have fuelled the debate on integrity. |
Updated 05/20/2006