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This article delves into the relationship between policing and public health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The police have been seen as a crucial and extensively mobilised resource that has been utilised in responding to a public health crisis. The response to the pandemic shows the police mainly as enforcing state orders in which they have a traditional function related to the use of force. It is argued here that the classic definition of policing in terms of the use of force allows for the police becoming ‘decoupled’ from the institutional frames of criminal justice and public order. The perspective of a decoupled police would have real consequences for their involvement in public health. The article concludes with the conditions necessary for police to be a legitimate force in the public health domain

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	COVID-19, decoupled, crisis, criminal justice, Bittner
Research Division:	Human Society
Research Group:	Criminology
Research Field:	Police administration, procedures and practice
Objective Division:	Law, Politics and Community Services
Objective Group:	Justice and the law
Objective Field:	Law enforcement
UTAS Author:	Cordner, G (Dr Gary Cordner)
ID Code:	154629
Year Published:	2022
Deposited By:	Policing and Emergency Management
Deposited On:	2022-12-17
Last Modified:	2023-01-12
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