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Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first
comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role
within Britain's long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a
time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict. The
Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 in order to standardise
all imperial police forces and mould colonial policing to the
British model. From the British Caribbean to the Middle East, the
Mediterranean to British Colonial Africa and on to Southeast Asia,
colonial police forces struggled with the unrest and conflict that
stemmed from Britain's withdrawal from its empire. As the shadow of
decolonisation grew ever longer, so colonial police forces reverted
back to their traditional role as a colony's first line of defence.
At the same time, as tensions increased throughout the empire, so
too did the power of the police through the development of police
intelligence systems and counter-insurgency units. Colonial
policing and the imperial endgame controversially asserts that it
was coercion rather than consent which was more commonly associated
with the work of police forces during this period of political
dislocation. Georgina Sinclair's focussed study of colonial
policing during this period facilitates a greater understanding of
the processes of decolonisation. -- .
Globalising British Policing demonstrates how the policing system
in place in Britain today has emerged from an historical overlap of
two broad policing models: a civil (English) and a semi-military
(colonial) tradition. Until relatively recently colonial policing
received considerably less scholarly attention than the policing of
mainland Britain. This volume comprises four sections: section I
considers works on British colonial policing up until the Second
World War; section II moves to post-war colonial policing through
the era of decolonisation; section III looks more closely at the
policing of Northern Ireland, and, section IV shows how the meshing
of these policing systems are currently contributing to the
globalisation of British policing today.
Globalising British Policing demonstrates how the policing system
in place in Britain today has emerged from an historical overlap of
two broad policing models: a civil (English) and a semi-military
(colonial) tradition. Until relatively recently colonial policing
received considerably less scholarly attention than the policing of
mainland Britain. This volume comprises four sections: section I
considers works on British colonial policing up until the Second
World War; section II moves to post-war colonial policing through
the era of decolonisation; section III looks more closely at the
policing of Northern Ireland, and, section IV shows how the meshing
of these policing systems are currently contributing to the
globalisation of British policing today.
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