Leading the Police: A History of Chief Constables 1835-2017

ISBN-13: 9780367227265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 278 str.

Kim Stevenson; David J. Cox; Iain Channing

Opis

This book considers police leadership and the role of Chief Constables from 1835 to the present day, the factors affecting their leadership, management and ideology and how these impacted upon the organization and operation of their forces.

Spis treści

Introduction,  Section 1: Early Chief Constables,  1. 'A fit man to be at the head of the police': Police Superintendents and Watch Committees in the first generation of ‘new policing’: a Yorkshire perspective, c.1850–70, David Taylor,  2. 'The best Chief Constable in the kingdom'? Recruitment and retention problems in an early English county constabulary, David J. Cox,  3. Early Chief Constables in Scotland: Policing the city and the county, David Smale,  4. The Irish Inspectors General, 1838–1916: leading Dublin Castle’s constabulary ‘machine’, Elizabeth Malcolm,  Section 2: Chief Constables and their forces.  5. Chief Constables as ‘moral heroes’ and guardians of public morality, Kim Stevenson,  6. ‘A nonconformist must be Chief Constable’: the historical challenges of policing in rural Wales, Richard W. Ireland,  7. ‘The best police officer in the force’: Chief Constables and their men, 1900–39, Joanne Klein,  8. ‘A nice old boy’: characterizing the Chief Constable role in detective fiction c.1890–1960, Judith Rowbotham,  9. What the Met brought to the party – reinforcement, colonization, specialization and fusion, Robert M. Morris,  10. Chief Constables and public order: tensions between discretion and consistency, Iain Channing,  Section 3: Twentieth-century Chief Constables  11. Pioneering women police chiefs: a tale of conflict and cooperation, Marisa Silvestri,  12. Leading through conflict and change: Chief Constables in Northern Ireland, Joanne Murphy,  13. ‘Seirbheis Phoilis na h-Alba’ police Scotland: the rationalization of Chief Constables, Gareth Addidle,  14. Chief Constables after PACE 1985–2017: The decline of a professional elite, Timothy Brain,  Conclusion