Policing and Security in Practice: Challenges and Achievements [Hardcover]

This volume addresses critical questions about how to achieve the best outcomes from police and security providers by reviewing and critiquing the scientific literature and identifying best practice guidelines. Chapters cover a range of topical issues, including legitimacy, organised crime, public protests and intelligence and investigations.Foreword ; M.Gill 1. (Re)Constructing Best Practice in Policing ; T.Legrand & S.Bronitt 2. Legitimacy and Policing; E.Sargeant , K.Murphy , J.Davis & L.Mazerolle 3. The Suppression of Organised Crime: New Approaches and Problems ; J.Ayling & R.Broadhurst 4. Policing Contemporary Protests ; D.Baker 5. Integrating Intelligence into Policing Practice ; J.Evans & M.Kebbell 6. The Effectiveness of Traffic Law Enforcement in Reducing Traffic Crashes ; L.Bates , B.Watson & D.Soole 7. Approaches to Improving Organisational Effectiveness: The Impact of Attraction, Selection and Leadership Practices in Policing ; J.M.Drew 8. Corruption Prevention and Complaint Management ; L.Porter & T.Prenzler 9. Public-Private Crime Prevention Partnerships ; T.Prenzler & R.Sarre 10. Safety in Policing and Security Operations ; T.Prenzler 11. Making the Most of Security Technology ; R.Draper, T.Prenzler and J. Ritchie 12. Optimising Security through Effective Regulation: Lessons from Around the Globe ; M.Button

'A key take away from the book - and from each chapter within it - is the very reason such a book is necessary: there is still a long way to go. While certainly true for policing, this is even truer for security, which at the moment is quite under-researched and under-regulated. The gaps between actual practice and best practice in policing and security make it all the more important that this book is, as Prenzler says, designed to appeal to a wide readership, including academics, students of policing and security, managers and operational officers in both fields and legislators and policy makers. Thus the valls5