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Policing a Perplexed Society (Hardcover)
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Policing a Perplexed Society (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Police and Policing
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Should policemen be armed? Do they want to be? How fair is police
interrogation? Are the police too tough on demonstrators? How often
are the guilty acquitted? Do we get the police force we deserve?
Originally published in 1977, Sir Robert Mark considers these and
many other issues. His period as Commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police Force would mark something of an epoch, not only because of
the challenge of brutal terrorism or his success as a leader, but
because he was a bold innovator, thoughtful and articulate, whose
work could be readily assessed because he believed in 'telling the
public all you can' (the official memorandum on this appears here
as an appendix). One change affecting the CID, described in this
book, is characterised by Sir Robert himself as the most important
single change since the Metropolitan Police was founded by his
namesake Sir Robert Peel. The opening chapter describes the
organisation and functioning of this country's police at the time,
the way in which they epitomise and are restricted by a free
society and alone see the whole picture of criminal justice - in a
sense here Sir Robert speaks over the heads of the legal profession
to the public. The next important chapter contains the first open
discussion of modern police-army cooperation in this country, but
Sir Robert emphasises that a democratic society cannot be
controlled by force and that the police exist for the maintenance
of public order, irrespective of party, of sectional interests and
of the government of the day. They are an example of the British
genius for successful institutional compromise. Subsequent chapters
examine these themes in more detail and from different angles;
discuss manpower limitations and maldistribution; emphasise how the
individual police officer, man or woman, is the anvil on which
society beats out the problems of social inequality, racial
prejudice and ghettoes, weak and ineffectual legislation. There are
chapters on violence and on that London speciality, the
demonstration. In the author's view, the police officer, daily
thrown back on his understanding of basic Christian precepts, has
now left his Victorian 'artisan status' far behind - and the
present Metropolitan Commissioner compels consideration of the
police officer's point of view.
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