| Description |
[viii], 152 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1: Where we Have Come From 5 -- Chapter 2: The Thin Blue Line 35 -- Chapter 3: Diversity: Institutional White Male Chauvinism 51 -- Chapter 4: Policing Philosophy: Principle or Pragmatism? 65 -- Chapter 5: Organised Crime 77 -- Chapter 6: Performance: Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and All That 93 -- Chapter 7: The Management and Governance of the Police 109 -- Chapter 8: Structure 125 -- Conclusion 143 |
| Notes |
Changing policing analyses : how the service has dealt with change since the revoluntionary sixties, the strengths and weaknesses of the 'canteen culture', the contradiction at the heart of the government's drug strategy , the abiding centrality of patrol to the policing task, the tension between improving performance and acknowledging human rights, the vexed issue of institutional racism and the difficulties inherent in implementing Macpherson's recommendations, the concept and limitation of a policing philosophy, the ambiguous role of the Home Office, counter-productive effectiveness of the Police Federation, the democractic deficit created by the current police authority structure;direct entry into senior ranks, conditions necessary for democratically accountable regional forces, the growing gap between accountability of chief officers and their authority to manage, new paradigm for drug control |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) and index |
| Subject |
Police -- England.
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Police -- Wales.
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| LC no. |
2002391610 |
| ISBN |
1903855004 |
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