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01 December 1996

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Mythos Sicherheit. Der hilflose Schrei nach dem starken Staat, (The security myth. The feeble cry for the strong state.) Rolf Goessner (ed) Baden-Baden NOMOS-Verlag 1995 pp.512 hb 68 -DM ISBN 3-7890-396. The contributors - academics journalists and practitioners - are concerned with questions of internal security and ask if the state itself has not become a threat to "its" citizens. Furthermore they present alternatives to the prevailing politics of "internal security" such as reform of the police the criminal law and prison system.

Polizei im Zwielicht. Geraet der Apparat ausser Kontrolle? (The police in the twilight. Does the machinery get out of control?). Rolf Goessner Oliver Ness Campus April 1996 pp.260 29 80 DM, ISBN 3-593-35469-1. Goessner is one of the best informed critics of the German police. He has written this book in cooperation with the Federal Working Group of Critical Police Officers. It is an analysis of the structure of the "police machinery" based on several case studies which shows more and more characteristics of a secret service organisation.

Sticks and stones at Wapping Paul Cotton. Police Review 16.2.96, pp12-13. Interesting but disingenuous account of the 1986-87 print workers' dispute at Wapping by a police officer who took part. Interesting because it acknowledges the arbitrary violence meted out by the police; disingenuous because it locates all of the blame with senior officers.

Pepper spray madness Lynne Wilson. Covert Action Quarterly 56 (Spring) 1996 pp 20-22. Examination of police use of "non- lethal" pepper spray in the United States where it has been a contributory factor in 60 in-custody deaths.

Nightmare on any street Paul Donovan. Morning Star 1.3.96. pp6- 7. Article on the introduction of the police long handled baton and the deaths - particularly of black people - that followed it.

What's in a word? "Community" policing in Britain USA and Canada Jayne Seagrave. Police Journal January 1996 pp30-40, Looks at the different concepts of "community policing".

Parliamentary debates

Policing of London Commons 5.2.96. cols. 28-111l

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