The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

38 Shifting policing paradigms

The roles of collaboration and team coaching in evidence-based policing implementation

Douglas Edward Abrahamson

This chapter has two primary aims and each supports police leaders and team coaches around the world who are trying to improve the level of accountability and effectiveness of police organizations through collaborative and transdisciplinary initiatives, such as evidence-based policing (EBP). EBP represents a significant shift in policing paradigms as it requires police to actively engage with academics, academic institutions, and scholars from various fields of endeavor by participating in, contributing to, and applying (policing) research and evaluation studies to contemporary police policies and practices ...