In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and
most visible organisations, and across the media there has been
constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police
themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting
and protecting the police image. This book is concerned to document
and to explain this image work, the activities in which the police
engage that construct and project images of policing. Drawing upon
first-hand research with the police themselves (including such
examples as the way the South Yorkshire Police handled the Miners
Strike and the Hillsborough stadium disaster), the book includes a
detailed look at police press and public relations officers at
work, and at operational policing and police work. Its broader
argument is that image work has the capacity to both legitimate
policing and to mask problems of legitimation. At a time of intense
debate about the future role and nature of the police this book
makes a key contribution, and raises important questions about the
implications of police image work for both democratically
accountable policing and the wider transformations in society being
brought about by the media and its management.
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