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Police "professionalism" answer to riots

01 January 1991

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Police "professionalism" answer to riots
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Police `professionalism' is the answer to riots, POLICE,
September 1991, p20. Article by Ron Hadfield, Chief Constable for
West Midlands, and chairman of ACPO's Public Order Committee. He
outlines the re-organisation of Police Support Units (PSUs) and
the standardisation of training under an ACPO review. The choice
was between setting up a `third force' and `heightening our
criminal intelligence and community awareness'. Police officers,
he argues are now more professional and have: `learned to walk
away from trouble on the basis of saying to themselves, "Alright,
lad, I'll come back for you in the morning, when you're not
surrounded by your mates" '. Systems could help quell riots,
Computer Weekly, 19.9.91. Article on a new Cleveland Constabulary
computer system which integrates the forces databases such as its
firearms registry and criminal records and pinpoints the location
of incidents.

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