Policing - new material (39)
01 December 1994
Report of the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis 1993/4. Metropolitan Police July 1994 20 pounds 122 pages. Includes Appendices on: crime figures; complaints gainst the police; deaths in custody; civil actions and damages; stop and searches and road blocks.
Talking cop shop? A case-study of police community consultation groups in transition Gordon Hughes Policing and Society vol 4 no 3 1994 pp253-270. Looks at "community policing" and police-community consultative arrangements in Britain and examines whether they are part of local democratic participation in policing or emergent inter-agency corporatism.
First the verdict and then the trial Dr Jenny Hocking. Policing and Society vol 4 no 3 pp219-236. Looks at the implications of the increasing use of electronic surveillance by police and intelligence agencies in Australia resulting in "a highly politicised and largely unaccountable form of criminal investigation".
Police Complaints and Discipline England and Wales 1993. Home Office Statistical Bulletin 6 June 1994 24 pages. Details complaints received: 22 300 of which 70% were withdrawn or resolved "informally" and of which 750 complaints were substantiated. Lists all deaths in custody excluding the Metropolitan Police (for which see the Commissioner's annual report).
Annual Report of the Police Complaints Authority 1993. HMSO
House of Commons Paper 305 March 1994 10.15p 68 pages.
Triennial Review of the Police Complaints Authority 1991-94
HMSO House of Commons Paper 396 19 May 1994 5.75p 24 pages.
Riot control Tim Malyon & Steve Platt. New Statesman and Society 14.10.94. pp14-15. On the "policing" of the march against the Criminal Justice Bill last October.
Covert police operations and the discretionary exclusion of evidence Sybil Sharpe. Criminal Law Review November 1994, pp793-804. This article considers judicial attitudes towards evidence obtained through informants and surveillance and concludes that there should be a Code of Practice to regulate the use of such evidence.
Forensic science evidence after Runciman Paul Roberts. Criminal Law Review November 1994 pp780-792. "A critical review of the Royal Commission's modified procedure for adducing forensic science evidence."