Seguridad y ciudadanía en la España democrática. La Policía de Proximidad como ética aplicada

Herrera Arrando, José Vicente

Seguridad y ciudadanía en la España democrática. La Policía de Proximidad como ética aplicada

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10550/65359

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2018

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21-02-2018

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Herrera Arrando, José Vicente

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Domingo Moratalla, Agustín

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Abstract

This thesis is the result of years of experience in the public security policies sector. The origin of this work, of an initially descriptive nature, cannot be very far from our own personal experience in the framework of the last decades of police history in Spain. I would like to begin with my recognition and emotional tribute to all those professionals who, most of the time under the criticism and incomprehension of many other colleagues, believed, wanted and knew how to move the Proximity Police forward with the only reward of providing a better service to all citizens Our initial vocation and police evolution that this research deals with are intertwined in the observation, proposition, creation, extension, reflection and -now also- transfer of a vital experience focused on this police approach -fully consolidated, we believe-, which is recognized as proximity police (community police). That is a a new scenario in which police and citizens could walk hand in hand in search of optimal solutions -always the ultimate goal- to safeguard the constitutional mandate (article 104 of the Spanish Constitution) to "protect the free exercise of rights and liberties and guarantee citizen security". At the same time, in second place and in parallel to the wording itself, a new conceptual aspect is discovered, which is none other than the belief that this type of proximity approach from the police to citizens can be understood as being applied ethics. In addition to focusing on this new context in which a different way of performing the police role from the proximity to citizens would be possible, and having the certainty that experiences to improve public security policies of the 21st century are effective, the research work itself led us to another reality just as encouraging: every time, and this is indeed part of the title of this thesis, we were more convinced that the Proximity Police could be considered as applied ethics. Applied ethics is a technique to discover the values we have, trust, tolerance, and clarify, support and guide the organisation of the police force in the horizon of democratic ethics and, as the case may be -a matter that we shall leave open for future research-, develop practices for these purposes. With these two axes, vocation/experience/Proximity Police, on the one hand, and applied ethics, on the other, we started the research and gradually the writing of the thesis itself. But the research obeys its own logic, its own mysteries, and acquires its own momentum and a life of its own to end up leading you to unforeseen places. The first part "Genesis of the Spanish Police", was easier to deal with although its writing involved many hours of collecting and recovering data, many almost forgotten, arranging them, systematizing them and, also, occasionally, ask some questions that anchored us to the reality of the research. We have used a descriptive method collated with experiences and opinions, which we try to reconstruct not by way of exemplary pretensions but with a willingness to serve by offering and sharing our knowledge and experience to others. The models are fragile if they have not gone through experience, and therefore, the strength of this thesis resides in the verification of what is narrated in our own life experience. The second part, with a much more assessing and thoughtful nature, is entitled "An ethical proposal of the Proximity Police". In this part hermeneutics are the guiding thread of its chapters, interpreting the implications that proximity police approaches have in the field of ethics. Starting from an approach to civil ethics as the origin of proximity, the features that define and detail what the Proximity Police is and its characteristic, are broken-down in the following chapters. We are in the field of principles, in the field of fundamentals... in the field of "light". However, addressing these basic supports does not imply that we lose perspective, since this promising horizon, at times, is truncated by unconstructive attitudes. The democratic ethic is not a matter of principles but of realities and, therefore, we must also be aware of the shadows. We started from the light, we moved on to the shadows and, finally, we concluded with the "adjusted light", nuanced, attenuated to the new tendencies and whose aim is the renewal of the horizon of police ethics. Thus, in chapter 9 we speak of those shadows, of those fragilities, vulnerabilities and reactions, which we call "leviathans", and which occur constantly and which cut off that "principialism" scope to revert it to reality, to the everyday, to pragmatic realism. With these critical hermeneutics we conclude our own thesis that culminates with trust that is materialised in a non-closed catalogue of multiple examples in which a proximity police approach to citizens can be derived. We conclude that the Proximity Police is the democratic police of the 21st century, keeping open new questions for future lines of research.

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