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Daniel Bear

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Daniel Bear is a professor in the School of Public Safety at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada. His research focus is on street level policing and the role of officers in modern anti-drugs efforts and community policing. He completed his PhD in social policy at the London School of Economics, spending a year alongside street-level Met officers collecting data. He has consulted for the Ministry of Justice regarding improving interactions between prison officers and prisoner

August 2014

  • A Metropolitan police officer with a body-worn camera

    Those cheering for police body-worn cameras must think a little deeper

    Daniel Bear and Johannes Rieken
    Daniel Bear and Johannes Rieken: There are potential pitfalls to the Liberal Democrats’ proposals. Effective policies need to be developed and enforced

January 2013

  • Post office queue

    Post office placements aren't the key to boosting confidence in the police

    Daniel Bear
    Daniel Bear: Increasing formal control by a more visible police force isn't as effective as, say, making sure stop-and-search is done fairly

August 2012

  • Police officers

    Giving police jobs to G4S is not the way forward

    Daniel Bear
    Daniel Bear: A scheme to recruit 'civilian investigators' to assist officers may save money but UK policing will be tainted by such privatisation

March 2012

  • police recruits

    Should all police officers really be university-educated?

    Daniel Bear and Johannes Rieken
    Daniel Bear and Johannes Rieken: Policing is less about Sherlock Holmes-like deduction and reasoning skills than building relationships with the community

December 2011

  • Anti-government protests in Cairo, Egypt - 26 Jan 2011

    Water cannon won't quench the fire inside rioters

    Daniel Bear
    Daniel Bear: Instead of firing projectiles, the government should improve police and community relations if it wants to prevent disorder

July 2011

  • Cannabis

    liberty central
    Strange police priorities in a time of austerity

    Daniel Bear and Michael Shiner

    Daniel Bear and Michael Shiner: With numbers being cut, officers should be focusing on crimes that seriously harm communities, not low-level cannabis use

March 2011

  • police on the beat

    We need quality policing, not Theresa May's focus on bobbies on the beat

    Daniel Bear
    Daniel Bear: It's the 'bedside manner' of a police officer that inspires confidence, not how many officers you can see on the street

February 2011

  • Police

    Crime maps, policing and fear

    Daniel Bear and Murray Lee

    Head to head: Daniel Bear and Murray Lee discuss the pros and cons of the Home Office's new crime mapping website

November 2010

  • A police passing out parade in Hendon

    The secret of community policing? Sandwiches

    Daniel Bear
    Daniel Bear: Politicians fail to acknowledge that the role police play in society is about more than bobbies on the beat
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