Knowledge Management in Policing and Law Enforcement: Foundations, Structures and Applications

This unique book sets out the conceptual framework for knowledge management and explains how a greater understanding of the subject can help policing at an operational level.

Part I covers the foundations of knowledge management and the key security issues in relation to a "globalized" world of crime and terrorism, Part II looks at the building of structures and the use of applications and Part III integrates the first two parts by providing illustrative examples of working applications of police-specific knowledge management systems.

Drawing on examples from around the world, the book takes the reader through the range of different systems and approaches and shows how they can be implemented in practice using illustrative case studies and practical diagrams.

This is an ideal purchase for all police professionals and policing academics with an interest in, or role in knowledge management systems.

Dr Geoff Dean is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice Studies in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He specialises in police investigative thinking and knowledge management, forensic and investigative psychology, criminal/offender profiling, justice and human rights, terrorism and security. He is registered as an international expert with EUROPOL at the Knowledge Management Centre, The Hague in the Netherlands and consults widely with various police services, institutes, and universities in Asia, Europe and North America. Dr. Dean is the program manager and teaching coordinator for a joint corporate program on 'International Policing' as a major course component for the Bachelor of Justice Degree for the Singapore Police Force. He is also a former police trainer. Dr Petter Gottschalk is professor of knowledge management at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, Norway. He specialises in knowledge work, management of knowledge workers, management of police investigations, leadership roles, knowledge strategies, value configurations, resource-based strategy and knowledge management systems. He is teaching at Nányang University in Singapore, Fudan University in Shanghai and Arab Academy in Egypt. Prior to this, Dr. Gottschalk had several executive positions in business and public administration.