1. Policing priorities on the ground -- 2. Good practice and evaluating policing -- 3. Constraints on the practice of community policing -- 4. Focused policing -- 5. Crime prevention delivery : the work of crime prevention officers -- 6. An evaluation of Human Resources Training -- 7. Policing racism -- 8. The neighbourhood watch experiment -- 9. Interrogating in a legal framework -- 10. Patterns and profiles of complaints against the police -- 11. Where the buck stops : chief constables' views on police accountability -- 12. 'Policing by consent' : legitimating the doctorine -- Conclusions : developing themes in policing research