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5 Police Prac. & Res. 1 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/gppr5 and id is 1 raw text is: Police Practice and Research, Routledge Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 01-03 F Taylor&FrisGop From the Editor-in-Chief Highlights of the Contents of Volume 5, Number 1 This first issue of Volume 5 of Police Practice & Research: An International Journal (PPR) celebrates a new feature in the journal: Instead of the usual four issues a year, there will be five issues in Volume 5 in 2004 and in subsequent volumes. The decision for increasing an issue has been made in order to enable the PPR Board of Editors to present innovative, interesting, and thought-provoking material to our readers in a more timely manner. The editors willbe looking forward to the reception of this exper- iment by our global community of readers. The current issue is a major contribution to the PPR's mission of strengthening the collaboration between research and practice in policing with a view to strengthening the police capacity to serve the people. With the analysis of his data from Australian cities like Canberra and Sydney, Jerry H. Ratcliffe ('The Hotspot Matrix: A Framework for the Spatio-Temporal Targeting of Crime Reduction'), discusses 'the techniques used to identify the spatial and temporal components of crime hotspots, and utilizes these methods to identify three broad categories of temporal hotspot and three broad categories of spatial hotspot.' He demonstrates abundant enthusiasm in his research because 'any discussion of crime hotspots is of clear interest to police managers, inter- ested as they are in devising suitable strategies for crime reduction in high crime areas.' Ratcliffe is, no doubt, aware that 'Academia does sometimes struggle to convey its message to practitioners, and this paper attempts to reduce the complexity of space- time high-volume crime interactions to a practical level.' Analyzing calls for service data from three Caribbean nations, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica, Richard R. Bennett ('Calling for Service: Mobilization of the Police Across Sociocultural Environments') argues that the social and political context of the jurisdiction determines, at the margins, the nature of citizen call for service.' He adds that 'for non-serious crime and other services, citizens' calls for police services are predicated upon the nature of relationship between the citizenry and the police.' The 'implications' are that the police 'must convince the populace that they have the legitimate needs of the citizens at heart.' In this regard 'developing nations with a recent colonial past are at a disadvantage' because 'not only must they overcome their colonial heritage and the ruling elites' expectation of service and protection, but they must also overcome citizens' negative attitudes and ingrained distrust.' ISSN 1561-4263 (print)/ISSN 1477-271X online/04/01003-3 @ 2004 Taylor & Francis Ltd DOI: 10.180/1561426042000191297