Purple Vests
The Origins of Plural Policing in Belgium
auteur | Elke Devroe |
tijdschrift | EJPS (ISSN: 2034-760X) |
jaargang | Volume 2 |
aflevering | Issue 3: Plural Policing – Guest Editors: Jan Terpstra & Elke Devroe |
onderdeel | Articles |
publicatie datum | 10 februari 2015 |
taal | English |
pagina | 304 |
keywords | police, incivilities, plural policing, public space |
samenvatting | This article increases the body of knowledge on the origins of plural policing in a continental setting, more specifically in Belgium. Compared to other European countries, Belgium occupies a unique position, which can be explained by its particular constitutional setting. While non-police public actors execute police surveillance tasks in the public space, private security companies have no more competences than any ordinary citizen. Today maintenance of social disorder in the public space presents itself as a municipal patchwork, delineated by municipal autonomy and by political |