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Record W4411413955 · doi:10.38159/ehass.2025677

Namibian Police Preservation of Internal Security: Lesson from other Countries Constitutions

2025· article· en· W4411413955 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueE-Journal of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicBorder Security and International Relations
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of South AfricaUniversity of NamibiaUniversity of OxfordTrent UniversityUniversity of BristolUniversity of RwandaNottingham Trent University
KeywordsMandateConstitutionInternal securityLegislationPolitical scienceObligationSecurity forcesPublic administrationStakeholderLawPolitics

Abstract

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Constitutions are considered essential pieces of legislation; without them, insecurity would likely be more widespread globally. They define roles, set permissible boundaries, and establish when obligations should be fulfilled, thus providing a framework for stability and security. The study compared the Namibian Police Force’s obligation to preserve internal security with Brazil, the Philippines, Scotland, Kenya, Tunisia, Ghana, South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique by analysing the constitutional mandates of the police officers. The study analysis showed that there are critical similarities and differences in the constitutional police mandate of the countries studied. The study adopted a desktop literature review approach to gather and analyse existing literature on the Constitution provisions. The analysis indicates that in Ghana, South Africa and Namibia, the Constitutions do not give provisions for other stakeholders to be involved in preserving internal security but the police alone. In Brazil, Philippines, Scotland, Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique’s Constitutions mandate either the armed forces or civilian components to aid the national police in preserving internal security. Although Namibia’s Constitution does not formally permit stakeholder involvement in internal security preservation, the military remains consistently engaged in this role due to internal security challenges that cannot be addressed by the police alone. Therefore, the study recommends that the Namibian Constitution be amended to legitimise other stakeholders’ involvement in preserving internal security. The study contributes to the knowledge with a special focus on how the Constitution contributes to effective or ineffective police duties in preserving internal security. Keywords: Constitution, Preservation, Internal Security, Obligation, Namibian Police Force

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.764
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.056
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it