Note
Cover title.
"April 2014"--Cover.
"This project is a collaborative effort between The Lady Davis Institute for medical
research - Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),
Ryerson University, and University of Saskatchewan) and is funded by Kanishka"--Page 107.
"This study represents part 1 of a study to examine the role of cultural competency as a response
to radicalization leading to violence. Part 2 will examine how police and security officers view
their training in terms of whether it provides them with what they need to be culturally competent
and interact appropriately with Canadians."--Page 4.
Authors affiliated with:
Lady Davis Institute ; McGill University ;
Université du Québec à Montréal ;
University of Saskatchewan ;
Ryerson University ;
Service de police de la Ville de Montréal.
Summary
"...it can be argued that it is necessary for police officers to actively promote relationships of trust with communities given that trust is an essential component of any security related intervention, One way in which police can build and maintain such trust is through the demonstration of behaviours which denote cultural competence. However, ethno-cultural communities have often identified their relationship with police and security officers as a difficult one which makes trust problematic. Obviously, police-citizen trust is paramount if they are to work cooperatively to ensure the safety of Canada. This study focused on objectives 3 and 4 of the full protocol, namely: to demonstrate how cultural competency training could lead to increased experience of trust from communities towards security officers; and to identify how, in the view of diverse communities, cultural competency is exercised during security officers’ interactions with them."--Includes text from Executive Summary .
Contents
1. Introduction -- 1.1.
The challenges of globalisation -- 1.2.
Perception of terrorist threats in Canada -- 1.3.
Cultural competence -- 1.4.
Rationale for the study -- 1.5.
Objectives -- 1.6.
Method -- 1.6.1.
Sample -- 1.6.2.
Recruitment -- 1.6.3.
Instrument -- 1.6.4.
Validation -- 1.6.5.
Procedure -- 1.7. Analysis -- 1.8.
Results -- 1.8.1.
Representativity of the sample -- 1.8.2.
Socio-demographics -- 1.9.
Overall perception of all participants relative to the view of police cultural competence -- 1.9.1.
Community life -- 1.9.2.
Participant's opinion of police -- 1.9.3.
Participants views of police behaviours -- 1.9.4.
Conditions under which respondents would seek police assistance -- 1.9.5.
Perceptions of community safety -- 1.9.6.
Direct experience with police -- 1.9.7.
Safety and national security -- 1.9.8.
Respondents’ views of the role of local police and RCMP in national security -- 1.9.9.
Possibility of violent extremism in the neighbourhood -- 2.
Focus groups -- 2.1.
Income and job discrepancies -- 2.2.
Police-citizen interactions -- 2.3.
Police-community relations -- 2.4.
Perceived cultural competency training of police -- 2.5.
Likelihood of calling police for domestic and national security issues -- 2.5.1.
Who is at risk of radicalization? -- 2.5.2.
Focus groups’ suggestions for police -- 3. Discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- 5. References.