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Exporting British Policing During the Second World War - Policing Soldiers and Civilians (Hardcover)
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Exporting British Policing During the Second World War - Policing Soldiers and Civilians (Hardcover)
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Exporting British Policing is a comprehensive study of British
military policing in liberated Europe during the Second World War.
Preventing and detecting thefts, receiving and profiteering
together with the maintenance of order in its broadest sense are,
in the peacetime world, generally confided to the police. However,
the Second World War witnessed the use of civilian police to create
a detective division of the British Army's Military Police (SIB),
and the use of British civilian police, alongside American police,
as Civil Affairs Officers to restore order and civil
administration. Part One follows the men of the SIB from their
pre-war careers to confrontations with mafiosi and their
investigations into widespread organised crime and war crimes
during which they were constantly hampered by being seen as a
Cinderella service commanded by 'temporary gentlemen'. Part Two
focuses on the police officers who served in Civil Affairs who
tended to come from higher ranks in the civilian police than those
who served in SIB. During the war they occupied towns with the
assault troops, and then sought to reorganise local administration;
at the end of the war in the British Zones of Germany and Austria
they sought to turn both new Schutzmanner and police veterans of
the Third Reich into British Bobbies. Using memoirs and anecdotes,
Emsley critically draws on the subjective experiences of these
police personnel, assessing the successes of these wartime efforts
for preventing and investigating crimes such as theft and
profiteering and highlighting the importance of historical
precedent, given current difficulties faced by international
policing organizations in enforcing democratic police reform in
post-conflict societies.
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