ABSTRACT
As Chapter 1 revealed, a Self is (re)established through the familiar Other at work, by which is meant the Other who is generally engaged with. This chapter will look more closely at how port police and security officers consider management and operational colleagues, as well as their partners in multi-agency cooperation. What does the othering of these specific familiar Others reveal about the Self? First, it will become clear that the relationship with managers is a hostile one, through which the participants experience (increased) job anxiety, meaninglessness and routinisation. This results from extreme managerialism, and even betrayal by management, and can lead to (criminogenic) resistance. As for collegiality, light is shed on the importance of unity among colleagues; they (re)establish their identity through such collegial unity. Those colleagues who do not abide to such unity, are considered authoritarian, careerist, competitive and exclusionary. However, participants are themselves authoritarian and exclusionary when colleagues are exclusionary or do not have the same maritime or port background. Finally, participants’ identities are (re)established through multiagency partnerships at operational level. It is a cooperation that is wished for; however, in reality it is one of multi-agency misunderstanding, distrust and rivalry, and can lead to conflict.
