Street-Level Policing Case Study

Private entrepreneurs, working as market traders within Ghana, often come into contact with the police in order for the police to, for instance, facilitate access through police check points, or, offer an account on the suit-abilities of prospective employees or grant access for parking for trading purposes. These group of participants to some degree could be refereed to as 'police property ' as they come into regular contact with the police at the street-level...these police officers may have a differing conception of street order. These experiences, arguably may motivate a fairly routine form of street-level police corruption in or for the police to ignore violation of the law in relation entrepreneurship. Such corrupt-related encounters

In this instance, Ms Akosua seems to suggest that it is difficult to sum up the notion of corruption on street-level policing. As officers ensure the safety and well-being of members of the public. Hence offering or paying money to the police is an appreciative gesture as well as enhancement for an incentive for the police to perform their duties diligently. Additionally, Ms Akosua 's response also appears to suggest that, there is an additive association between paying or offering money to police officers, thus, the quality of policing is enhanced. If police economic freedom is less, then paying money or offering money to the police would likely increase economic growth of police officers, thereafter, having a positive effect on the quality of policing. Police corruption as most research posit an abuse or misuse of entrusted authority (Waddington 1999, Anderson and Tverdova 2003, Ashworth and Anand 2003, Baker 2005, Ivkovic 2005) does not seem to apply in her explanation of police-public corrupt practices. These views presented also highlights some of the difficulties in applying the current concepts of corruption to developing societies, i.e., Sub-Saharan Africa (in this context Ghana) with social structures significantly distinctive to that of Western societies. For instance, corruption has been considered in most Western countries as a negative connotation in light of the fact that paying or giving money to a police officer is untrustworthy and unethical (see Sherman 1982, Ross 2000, Rose-Ackerman 2007). However, Ms Akosua seems to suggest that offering money to police officers is a requirement in order to ensure an effective police operational duties. In other words, without occasionally offering money to the police, the likelihood of less effective