Responsive professionalism in post-NPM reforms: the case of the Swedish police

Figures & data

Table 1. Empirical material, including semi-structured interviews and documents.

Pilot interviews	Interviews with municipal staff (n = 6)	Interviews with police officers (n = 39)	Documentation of local police measures
- 1 regional police manager - 1 police manager in charge of local police districts - 8 community police officers	- 6 security coordinators working for municipalities in a big city, midsized town, and/or rural district	- 4 regional police managers - 5 police managers in charge of local districts - 13 community police officers - 2 inspectors in charge of local teams - 9 local inspectors - 1 operative coordinator - 3 officials involved in investigation and strategy	- public promises by the police to citizens in local districts - operational and communication plans - agreements about municipal collaboration - local crime and safety statistics - evaluations of local crime and crime prevention measures

Table 2. Police occupational awareness of how to enact responsive professionalism.

The three key dimensions of professionalism	Relating as collaboration filter fostering awareness of	Relating as coproducing filter fostering awareness of	Relating as brokering filter fostering awareness of
Responding to collaborators’ reliance on state-of-the-art knowledge and skills in the police	by reaching agreements that foster common ground and formal expectations of police competence	by acting as orchestrators coordinating networks that maintain recognition of police influence and local presence	by maintaining police familiarity with the local community
Addressing expectations of the ability to translate knowledge and standards to the needs and features of the case at hand	by acting as moderators tempering negotiations and external expectations.	by responding to demands for substantial and procedural judgements in networks of collaborators	by mobilizing efficient mediation and dissemination
Responding to the recognition of the police as an authority complying with and updating standards and codes	by managing policy coordination and formal expectations of police involvement	by managing affinities for and normative constraints on local police involvement	by acting as mediators in networks distributing and providing access to useful information