Introduction For a Crime Plan to have a lasting impact, both on the root causes of crime and the immediacy of the current crime rate, it needs to be a meeting place of justice and reason. There is a requirement that it becomes a vehicle for new thinking with respect to clear strategic intent. This …
Introduction: When an organisation can deny people their fundamental rights; when they can administer violence, sanctioned by the State; when they can prevent the free movement of citizens around public space – it is only right that democratically elected governments would want to have a significant role in how these functions are both considered and …
Introduction: This first in a quarterly series of ‘Take-Four’ will focus on the issue of performance and leadership within a policing context. The very term performance is now synonymous with the counting of data, a clinical and rational model purposefully designed to justify to self and others, the execution of duty. The ‘numbers’ are sacrosanct and in many ways …
Policing Commentary ‘Take Four’: The Policing of Performance Read More »
We look forward to engaging with you in a really constructive manner over the coming weeks and months. Our intention is to create an environment within which productive debates can take place with respect to policing and law enforcement. The focus on policing practices both in the UK and overseas is rightly intense; yet the debates …