‘Rorting the System’: Police Detectives, Diversity, and Workplace Advantage
Toby Miles-Johnson and
Kate Linklater
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Toby Miles-Johnson: School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, 100 Macquarie Street, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia
Kate Linklater: School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, 100 Macquarie Street, Liverpool, NSW 2170, Australia
Societies, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-20
Abstract:
Internal workplace practices and policies in policing are based on a notion of fairness and equal opportunity. Yet police organizations are frequently criticized for discriminatory policing practices, unfair and biased workplace practices, and poor interpersonal treatment of officers. Whilst there is a wide body of research examining diversity in relation to external police practices, there is a lack of knowledge regarding diversity and internal workplace practices; particularly from the perspective of police detectives who often have more substantial policing experience and longer employment histories than other non-commissioned officers. Contributing new findings to the extant policing literature, this research analyzes data collected from interviews with twenty police detectives working in one of the largest Australian police organizations. It suggests that police detectives in this study have negative perceptions of diversity, and associate diversity with unfair advantages in the workplace. In Australian culture, the phrase ‘rorting the system’ is an informal expression used to describe individuals or groups of people who take unfair advantage of a public service or workplace policy to change their circumstances. The findings suggest that detectives in this study believe diversity enables some officers to take advantage of workplace policy and ‘rort’ the system.
Keywords: policing; police detectives; diversity; workplace; advantage; rort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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