Plural Policing: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Colin Rogers

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 186
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The police increasingly need to work with other government agencies, the third sector, community organisations and the private sector, an approach known as “Plural Policing”. This book critically analyses the rise of this approach in England and Wales over the past decade, giving examples of national and international practice. Written by an author with experience in both practice and academia, it discusses the consequences of this approach for the historical model of policing provision and challenges views on how policing should be delivered in the future. Part of Key themes in policing, a textbook series designed to fill a growing need for research-informed policing within Higher Education curriculums and in practice, edited by Megan O’Neill, Marisa Silvestri & Stephen Tong, this accessible text, aimed primarily at undergraduate students, will appeal widely across different modules and tie into important issues covered on all policing courses.

✦ Table of Contents

PLURAL POLICING
Contents
List of tables, figures and boxes
Tables
Figures
Boxes
Series preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Theory and principles underpinning plural policing
1. Who are the police and what is policing?
Introduction: Taking the police out of policing
Defining a definition
Social control as function
Democratic policing
Community policing
Community engagement
Police legitimacy
The police in England and Wales today
Conclusion
2. Discussing plural policing
Introduction
Recent historical context
Defining plural policing
Plural policing in different countries
Plural policing as vertical policing
Information and intelligence
Accountability in a pluralised policing environment
Conclusion
3. Private policing
Introduction
‘Private-ness’ and policing services
The rise of the ‘quasi-police’
Private sector involvement in partnerships
The current government’s approach
Conclusion
Part 2. Public plural policing in England and Wales
4. Neighbourhood policing teams
Introduction
Historical context
Policing ‘Chicago-style’
The arrival of neighbourhood policing teams
Citizen-focused policing
Police community support officers
Accreditation
National Intelligence Model
An initial model of plural policing
The extended policing family
Modern approaches to the NPT concept
A new model of NPT policing?
Conclusion
5. Police community support officers
Introduction
PCSOs today
Historical context
Legislative powers
Reaction to PCSOs
Evaluation of the role
Conclusion
6. The rise of the volunteer
Introduction
The special constabulary
The historical context of special constables
The special constabulary today
The idea of citizen participation
Big Society
A different approach
The role of the public in pluralised policing
The cost of volunteer policing
Neighbourhood volunteers
The expert citizen
Conclusion
7. Partnerships or plural policing?
Introduction
Historical context of community safety partnerships
Kirkholt and other initiatives
The Morgan report
The idea of community safety
Response to partnerships
Asset-based community development
Public involvement
Conclusion
Part 3. Consideration of the future
8. Future directions
Introduction
Economic framework for change
A change in police philosophy?
Sponsorship
Collaboration
Changes in police education and recruitment
Increased reliance on technology
Other challenges
Private security provision
Special constables
Police community support officers
Community volunteers
Future accountability
Conclusion
References
Index
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