myAIPMWellbeing watchlist: five challenges for UK policing post Covid-19
Geoff Newiss | The Police Foundation
"After more than 12 months of lockdowns and restrictions the UK is slowly daring to contemplate a post-Covid-19 reality. For everyday citizens this is likely to stir a mixture of emotions from exhilaration through to fear and anxiety, as we look to navigate a path through newfound opportunities together with residual Covid-19 related risks.
The task of navigating the ‘new normal’ is likewise going to present challenges to organisations, not least the police. Perhaps more than any other profession, the police have had to contend with an unenviable list of thorny Covid-related issues:
- How to keep themselves safe while keeping the public safe.
- How to translate hastily issued government decrees into workable everyday policing.
- When to engage, explain, encourage and when to enforce.
- How to balance their new Covid-19 policing role with their vast array of non Covid-19 related responsibilities.
The pandemic has changed both what the police do and how they do it, with potential long-lasting consequences for not only the relationship between the public and the police, but for police officers themselves."
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Wellbeing watchlist: five challenges for UK policing post Covid-19, Geoff Newiss, The Police Foundation, 2021