This book introduces the reader to a unit of the police department that has been secretive and lacking transparency, despite being an integral part of policing for a number of years.
At a time when these issues have taken center stage, this volume offers a critical understanding of how community policing really works.
This is the most current text available for this course, and adheres to the Ontario Police Foundations curriculum.
The position of the police in both the old democracies and in societies in transition is affected by occasional conflicting legal and professional standards for police work, increasing public expectations, changing crime patterns, stricter ...
The book was controversial, but quite clear on one point: however independent any new complaints procedure may become, and however much committees were ‘consulted’ by chief constables via ‘Scarman-type’ liaison committees, until the ...
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) (2011) Without Fear or Favour: A Review of Police Relationships, London: HMIC. ... of Constable: Progressive Policing in an Age of Austerity', in J. Brown (ed.) The Future of Policing, ...
The Second Edition of The New World of Police Accountability covers these subjects and more with a sharp and critical perspective.
The book deals with the constitutional position of police and traces developments in the debate on accountability from the Royal Commission report of 1962 to the present day.
Despite the recent outcrop of controversy about the police and their accountability in the 1960s, there was no work dealing in detail with the problems discussed in this book.
The national picture of the goals, functions, and models of advisory and review boards sets the background for how these bodies work in North Carolina.