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Principled Policing: Protecting the Public with Integrity

By John Alderson

Book information

Publisher
Waterside Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9781908162502, 9781872870717
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13633117 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
193\193
Time added
2023-09-01 01:37:21
SOC004000

Description

The author of this book describes how it is all too easy for quite "ordinary" police officers to descend into behaviour which is difficult to comprehend, as a result of state manoeuvring, police culture, and what he believes is a lack of any fundamental values for police work. Through an account of what Alderson calls "high police", and by way of examples from around the world - including Northern Ireland, Tiananmen Square, Nazi Germany, J. Edgar Hoover's days at the FBI, and the British miners' strike of 1984/85 - he advocates the creation of a code of principles designed to act as a touchstone for police everywhere.

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