`ASK A POLICEMAN': COMMUNITY CONSULTATION IN PRACTICE (1)
01 January 1991
`ASK A POLICEMAN': COMMUNITY CONSULTATION IN PRACTICE
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S P Savage, C Wilson
Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 21, No. 3, Autumn 1987,
pp252-263
This article examines the development of police community
consultation arrangements in one large county in Southern England
made under statute. The various responses of the main parties in
the process are analysed: the police, the police authority, and
the local committees. The extent to which the practice of
consultation relates to wider claims for the enhancement of
police accountability are considered. The main conclusions are
that the predominant conflict was not between police
representatives and the local community, but between the police
authority and the local committee. A more cautious approach to
police accountability is argued.
Community policing, law and order
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