Police and Crime Commissioners: The transformation of police accountability - Brossura

Caless, Bryn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1447320700 ISBN 13: 9781447320708

Casa editrice: Policy Press, 2016

Riassunto

Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are elected representatives whose role is to ensure that police forces in England and Wales are running effectively. Intended to bring a public voice to policing and hold the police to account, this controversial role also controls budgets and strategic planning.

Drawing on unprecedented access to PCCs and their chief officer teams, Bryn Caless and Jane Owens performed confidential interviews with both sides and reveal in this book the innermost workings of PCCs’ relationships with the police, media, partners, and the public. The authors also analyze the election process (in which some PCCs have been elected by the lowest voter turnout ever in the United Kingdom) and consider the future of this politically contested role. Amid ongoing international debates over police accountability, this fascinating look at the impact of PCCs on policing will be essential reading for PCCs themselves, chief officers, police officers, and police trainers, as well as academics, students, and researchers in criminology and policing.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Bryn Caless is a senior lecturer in policing at Canterbury Christ Church University and former director of the Kent Police College. He is coauthor, most recently, of Leading Policing in Europe: An Empirical Study of Strategic Police Leadership, also published by Policy Press. Jane Owens is a lecturer in the School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing at Canterbury Christ Church University and a former police officer.

Bryn Caless specialises in elite studies of policing and police accountability. He has written Policing at the Top, (2011) on chief police officers in England and Wales, and, with Steve Tong, a companion study of police leaders in Europe (2015). This is his third book for Policy Press.

After a varied career as a police officer, Jane Owens now lectures at Canterbury, Christ Church University. Her research interests include neighbourhood policing, police governance and ‘private’ policing.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Policy Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1447320700
• ISBN 13: 9781447320708
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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