香港式社区警务:基于油麻地果栏的研究

Hong-Kong-style Community Policing:A Study of the Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market

本文的研究对象是人口稠密的香港市区中的传统水果批发市场的警务活动。基于人种志和历史学的调查,我们概述了支配市场内警察权自由裁量约定的政治安排。历史上形成的制度维持了非正式的境况,以此对抗各种变革的压力。我们发现,香港当前警务制度的主要特征是民主思潮下的社区警务和香港行政中的一些特定因素相结合。上述特征导致秩序维护是香港式社区警务的总体特征。

This paper explores the policing of a traditional wholesale fruit market located in a densely populated neighborhood of urban Hong Kong. Based on ethnographic and historical research,we outline the political arrangements that govern the discretionary arrangements of police power at the market. A historically developed system maintains an informal status quo against various pressures to change. We identify crucial features in the contemporary policing system that emerge from a fusion between community policing ideals and some particular aspects of local administration in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. These features of this historically developed mode of order- maintenance,we suggest,might be seen as broadly characteristic of a ＂Hong Kong style＂community policing.