Introduction to the Special Issue - Policing in Pacific Island Countries and Territories: Navigating Culture, Context, and Organizational Terrain

The aim of this special issue is to showcase research on policing in Pacific Island countries and territories. Specifically, the issue is concerned with contextual responses to police service provision, the tensions that impact police/community relations, issues of police legitimacy, the role of context and organisational culture, and the changing face of crime and criminality. We have given primary consideration to papers that report empirical research and reflect on how the policing remit in the Pacific region extends beyond mandated functions. These include roles related to stakeholder demands informed by emerging crimes and rule of law, donor intervention, and the social, political or economic realities of the specific Pacific Island countries or territories