Policing - new material (37)
01 December 1997
Tackling the English disease Carol Jenkins. Police Review 16.1.98 pp16-17. Interview with Tim Hollis ACPO spokesman on football on British police liaison with their French counterparts in preparation for the World Cup in France this summer. Hollis discusses British "in-roads...made by developing a sophisticated intelligence system and by formalising the use of spotters - undercover officers who infiltrate the grounds and glean valuable intelligence on potential troublemakers..."
Suspects in police custody Tom Bucke & David Brown. Research Findings No. 62 (Home Office Research and Statistics Department) 1997 pp4. This report examines the impact of the April 1995 revisions to the Codes of Practice for the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984).
Ethnicity and contacts with the police: latest findings from the British Crime Survey Tom Bucke. Research Findings No. 59 (Home Office Research and Statistics Department) 1997 pp4. This report concentrates on the results of the 1994 and 1996 surveys. It finds that "Afro-Caribbeans were more likely to be stopped by police while on foot or in a car" and that they were more than twice as likely as whites to be searched when stopped and four times more likely to be arrested."
Code of Honour Gary Mason. Police Review 23.1.98, pp16-17
Interview with Paul Condon Commissioner of the Metropolitan police on corruption Operation Countryman and proposed changes to the police disciplinary system.
Public order review Jo Cooper. Legal Action February 1998 pp22- 24. Bi-annual update that reviews trends and significant developments in public order and arrest cases.
Operation Bent Duncan Campbell. Guardian 29.1.98 pp2-3. Interesting article that compares the current crackdown on corrupt police (see story above) with the Operation Countryman clean-out of the 1970s.
It's time to change Gary Mason. The Job 23.1.98 pp8-9. The Metropolitan police Commissioner Sir Paul Condon discusses police corruption and considers Sir Robert Mark's 1970s Operation Countryman. Nearly 480 policemen left the force during the clean- up but less than 80 "were formally dealt with through criminal or disciplinary action and only 2 convicted.
Innere Sicherheit - Grundrechtabbau und Repression ["Internal Security" - Destruction of basic rights and repression]. AMI no 12 1997. Special on policing with articles on internal security ideology Europol internal use of armed forces private security firms organized crime and criminal statistics.