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Oversight and chief officers' relationships with police authorities, directly elected police crime commissioners, HMIC and the Home Office

Bryn Caless

in Policing at the Top: The Roles, Values and Attitudes of Chief Police Officers

The history of recent policing — certainly in the last ten years — has been dominated by the increased intervention in the actions and direction of chief officers by politicians; pre-eminently the ... More

The history of recent policing — certainly in the last ten years — has been dominated by the increased intervention in the actions and direction of chief officers by politicians; pre-eminently the Home Secretary, but also by the inspection of police-performance regimes by HMIC and the often controversial proposals made by HMI Inspectors. This chapter considers the views of chief officers on their relationships with both the HO and with HMIC (the latter has a role in both the appointment and career management of chief officers). How uneasy many chief officers are about political interference with traditional police autonomy is a pertinent factor in this debate.Less

The Fracturing of Police Authority

Ian Loader and Aogán Mulcahy

in Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture

The central contention of the desacralization thesis is that the economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations experienced by English society since 1945 have fatally undermined the kinds of ... More

The central contention of the desacralization thesis is that the economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations experienced by English society since 1945 have fatally undermined the kinds of steadfastly supportive sensibilities towards police authority. This demise is in large measure caused by the cavernous social divisions and individualized and pluralistic social relations that characterize late modern England. But it is also viewed as the legitimacy-eroding consequence of the police's controversial involvement since the late 1960s in what has become a regular diet of political protests, industrial disputes, and urban disorders. This chapter aims to extend and develop this thesis as well as qualify and revise it in certain key respects by seeking to distil the contours and substance of what is considered to be a range of contemporary public dispositions towards English policing. Drawing on group discussions and biographical interviews with different strata of the English populace, it identifies five perspectives on policing and the social which have been termed: defenders of the faith, the disenchanted, atheists, agnostics, and the hopeful.Less

Is the law on my side? Relationships between the PCC and the chief police officer team

Bryn Caless and Jane Owens

in Police and Crime Commissioners: The Transformation of Police Accountability

The chapter examines the nature of the relationships between police and crime commissioners and the chief police officer teams. The confidential views of both sides are examined and juxtaposed. There ... More

The chapter examines the nature of the relationships between police and crime commissioners and the chief police officer teams. The confidential views of both sides are examined and juxtaposed. There is evidence to suggest that an accommodation is being reached between the two sides and this is particularly the case in terms of joint responses to budgetary stringency. The role of the old Police Authorities, which PCCs replaced, is also examined in the round.Less

The Sound of Intimate Authority: Professionalism and the Reformation of Police Officers

Kathleen Battles

in Calling All Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing

This chapter is concerned with the issue of representing police authority mainly through sound, an exposition of the indicative elements of radio responsible for establishing the meaning of policing ... More

This chapter is concerned with the issue of representing police authority mainly through sound, an exposition of the indicative elements of radio responsible for establishing the meaning of policing in radio crime docudramas. It initially presents the police reform discourse and creation of the ideal officer; followed by an examination of the expressive elements of radio speech representing police authority; and finally, it looks at how radio dramas constructed a sort of intimate authority between radio listeners and the police, made possible by the adaptation of crime drama content as suitable to domestic reception.Less

Reform or politicization?: The Coalition and police constitutional change

Timothy Brain

in A Future for Policing in England and Wales

This chapter analyses the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill and its impact on police authority. It describes the events leading up to the passage of the bill and the provisions that made ... More

This chapter analyses the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill and its impact on police authority. It describes the events leading up to the passage of the bill and the provisions that made the most changes in law enforcement authority. It examines the first ever Police and Crime Commissioner elections in November 2012 and describes how the low turnout of the election harmed the credibility of the whole process. The chapter also pays attention to the possibility of the law enforcement becoming too political as an outcome of the idea of holding elections.Less

The Politics of Partnership

Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell

in The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles

This chapter explores how power struggles with police and racial antagonisms between Blacks and Latin@s problematize the goals of community policing and diminish the influence community leaders could ... More

This chapter explores how power struggles with police and racial antagonisms between Blacks and Latin@s problematize the goals of community policing and diminish the influence community leaders could build to shape police action. The crisscrossing conflicts that the authors observed between Black and Latin@ meeting leaders, Vera Fisher and Hector Mendoza, and the conflicts between another Black meeting leader, Julie Coleman, and Captain Himura frame this chapter. The discussion of a community policing “power struggle” between Blacks and Latin@s takes place within a compromised field, premised on the idea that police devolve authority to the community. Together, these characters demonstrate the ways in which members of the CPAB have only a contingent authority in meetings—given to them at the Captain’s behest—and how the local racial order and legal status of many HO participants undermine their authority as well. Leaders, if they choose to remain, must volunteer to comply with police authority. LAPD has erected a community policing apparatus that has provided rhetoric of community accountability, but, at least in Lakeside, has also succeeded in platforming divisive community politics.Less

Epilogue: The Rampart Way: A Gang Truce, Gangster Cops, and a Consent Decree

Max Felker-Kantor

in Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD

Not until the Rampart Scandal (the exposure of wide- spread corruption in the LAPD’s Rampart anti-gang Community Resources against Street Hoodlums unit) in the late 1990s led to a federal consent ... More

Not until the Rampart Scandal (the exposure of wide- spread corruption in the LAPD’s Rampart anti-gang Community Resources against Street Hoodlums unit) in the late 1990s led to a federal consent decree did the LAPD face rigorous oversight. While leading to a new era in the LAPD’s history, such oversight also opened possibilities for expanded police authority because decades of get-tough policies embedded police power in urban politics. As the conclusion to Policing Los Angeles, this chapter demonstrates the continued operation of the police power as well as the ways activists and residents in Los Angeles have continued to push for reform and restructuring of the Los Angeles Police department.Less

The new police landscape: Organization

Timothy Brain

in A Future for Policing in England and Wales

This chapter focuses on the changes in the organizational structure of police authority as a result of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. It describes the developments in national ... More

This chapter focuses on the changes in the organizational structure of police authority as a result of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. It describes the developments in national policing before the Coalition and the antecedents of Conservative thinking on collaboration and national policing. It analyses the Conservative white paper, Policing in the 21st Century, and its influence on new national policing policies. It also discusses the development of the new police landscape, which includes the rearrangement and retitling brought about by the Strategic Policing Requirement and the introduction of new institutes.Less

Democracy Rediscovered

in The Disinherited Society: A Personal View of Social Responsibility in Liverpool During the Twentieth Century

This chapter discusses the author's rediscovery of democracy from her experience as Chairman of Merseyside Policy Authority in Liverpool following the riots of 1981. It highlights the importance of ... More

This chapter discusses the author's rediscovery of democracy from her experience as Chairman of Merseyside Policy Authority in Liverpool following the riots of 1981. It highlights the importance of accountability as evidenced by the actions of the police during the riots and considers the lessons about democracy that can be learned from voluntary action. It also stresses the importance of returning to the people the responsibility for the management of their common affairs of which they are often deprived.Less

Organizing the Division

Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell

in The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles

The chapter examines the captaincy of Albert Himura and his academy trainer, Rick Patton. Together, these Captains defined the organizational structure of the two groups the authors observed—the CPAB ... More

The chapter examines the captaincy of Albert Himura and his academy trainer, Rick Patton. Together, these Captains defined the organizational structure of the two groups the authors observed—the CPAB and the HO—throughout their fieldwork. The authors explore the community meeting structure under Captain Himura, whose main goal is to cultivate the capacity for community crime control. This begins with recruiting pro-law-enforcement thinkers. They also discuss how Captain Patton controlled the symbolic boundaries of meetings—who could participate, the agenda, and what messages should be circulated within and outside meetings—and show how police shape and restrict the role of the citizen in crime prevention. Regular meetings demonstrate that LAPD wishes to collaborate, but at the same time the Captain and SLOs favor LAPD’s traditional crime-fighting project.Less

Some Conclusions

Desmond Rea and Robin Masefield

in Policing in Northern Ireland: Delivering the New Beginning?

This chapter starts by addressing two of the fundamental issues – the principles of policing (including those attributed to Sir Robert Peel) and how to hold the police to account, underpinning both ... More

This chapter starts by addressing two of the fundamental issues – the principles of policing (including those attributed to Sir Robert Peel) and how to hold the police to account, underpinning both of which in the views of the authors are consent and public confidence in policing. It then looks at contemporary developments in accountability in Britain (such as the election of Police and Crime Commissioners and the disbandment of the former Police Authorities) and America, pointing up of some of the issues acknowledged by commentators. The chapter summarises the achievements of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, and briefly reprises the key findings in the earlier chapters in this regard. The book concludes with a tribute to the many who have helped contribute to the delivery of the new beginning of policing in Northern Ireland, paying particular tribute to the members and staff of the Policing Board.Less

“Spiritual Coauthorship”: Seventeen Moments of Spring and the Soviet TV Miniseries

Christine E. Evans

in Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television

This chapter examines the rise of fictional miniseries as a new television genre in the Soviet Union by focusing on Seventeen Moments of Spring. Directed by Tatiana Lioznova, Seventeen Moments of ... More

This chapter examines the rise of fictional miniseries as a new television genre in the Soviet Union by focusing on Seventeen Moments of Spring. Directed by Tatiana Lioznova, Seventeen Moments of Spring generated public conversations about moral complexity and the need for new, post-Stalin heroes who might repair the damage of the Stalin cult and refound the Soviet Union's postwar empire in Europe on firmer ground. The film proposed a new deal between state and intelligentsia, based on shared values and, ultimately, subordination to police authority. This chapter first situates Seventeen Moments of Spring in its international context before discussing its reception as a “genuine political film.” It then considers the moral ambiguity of state power and secret police in Seventeen Moments of Spring, along with the Stirlitz character in relation to the problem of fanaticism. It also looks at Seventeen Moments of Spring's many contradictions, arguing that they were designed to invite viewer participation that complemented the film instead of undermining it.Less

Article 16 TFEU

Marcus Klamert

in The EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights: A Commentary

Article 286 EC Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning them.