Police Accountability Revisited

Marshall, Geoffrey

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-03698-1_5

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“…Elliott and Nicholls (1996) found that police authorities tended to rely heavily on traditional police community style meetings but by found that police authorities had begun to reassess their methods of consultation. Raine et al, (2006) One of the challenges for police authorities is to ensure that they are not seen as the mouth piece of the police service simply justifying and informing the community of what the police are doing (Day & Klein, 1987;Marshall, 1978;Reiner, 2000). The other challenge for police authorities is that local people do not know -in sufficient number -that police authorities exist and therefore do not see themselves as having the opportunity to influence local policing through the police authority.…”

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“…Moreover, the police authority is also dependent on the police service through the commissioner or the chief constable to relay information to them via reports presented to the police authority. Baldwin and Kinsey (1982) and Marshall (1978) highlight section 12.3 of the Police Act 1964 because it provides chief constables with an exit clause if they think that by submitting a report it would result in the disclosure of sensitive information that could jeopardize or influence operational policing. Chief constables are permitted to refer such requests for a report to the Home Secretary who has the final decision on what if anything is presented.…”

Section: Accountability and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This places the police authority at the mercy of the police service (Day & Klein, 1987). It is quite possible that the Home Office and the chief constable could agree to support each other in decisions to the exclusion of the police authority (Lustgarten, 1986;Baldwin and Kinsey, 1982;Marshall, 1978). Lustgarten (1986) sees this level of dependency as unsatisfactory and for Jones et.…”

Section: Accountability and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Policing and accountability: the working of police authorities

Millen

Stephens

2011

Policing and Society

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In recent times policing has attracted a good deal of controversy, such as the paramilitary tactics employed at demonstrations, the use of stop and search powers under the Terrorism Act 2000, and the manner in which police officers are deployed on day-today duties. This paper outlines the role and potential of police authorities to influence police policy and operations, and also highlights the need to seek greater citizen participation in holding the police to account. The major part of the paper draws on ground-breaking research on police authorities using questionnaire and in-depth interview data to outline just how it is that police authority members approach their duties.

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Policing and accountability: the working of police authorities

Millen

Stephens

2011

Policing and Society

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“…Whilst the limitations of understanding police knowledge as nothing more than the application of the law is well established (Marshall 1978;Lustgarten 1986;Walker 2000;Stenning, 2011), there continues to be a view that police discretion is an unreliable base upon which to build an understanding of police professionalism. Police discretion continues to be seen in problematic terms as an obstacle to professional police practice.…”

Section: Developing Police Knowledge Within the Contexts Of Police Prmentioning

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The importance of context and cognitive agency in developing police knowledge

Wood

Cockcroft

Tong

et al. 2017

The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles

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This paper argues the current exposition of police knowledge through the discourses of police science and evidenced based policing (EBP) leads to exaggerated claims about what is, and can be, known in policing. This new orthodoxy underestimates the challenges of applying knowledge within culturally-mediated police practice. The paper draws upon virtue epistemology highlighting the role cognitive agency plays in establishing knowledge claims. We challenge the assumption that it is possible to derive what works in all instances of certain aspects of policing and suggest it would be more apt to speak about what worked within a specific police context.

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“…Of particular note over the past fifty years has been the spectacular growth in laws and procedures to render the police accountable for their policies, practices, acts and decisions [9,14,45,70,75,111,117,154,142,160,218,248]. Accountability in this context, and for the purposes of this collection of essays as a whole, is being used loosely to encompass all procedures and methods which can be deployed to render an individual police officer, and the police authority as whole, answerable to another person or body whether that person or body is located inside or outside the police force in question.…”

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