1st Edition

Police Work Principles and Practice

352 Pages
by Willan

350 Pages
by Willan

This book provides a highly readable account of police work. It builds upon Introduction to Police Work (Rogers and Lewis 2007) to provide a comprehensive, in depth and critical understanding of policing in today's diverse society. Police Work: Principles and Practice meets the need for an increasingly sophisticated and professional approach to training within the police, whether this is... Read more
1. The Context for the Book  Part 1: Community  2. Community Issues  3. Community and Crime Reduction  4. Neighbourhood Policing Teams and Problem Solving  5. Communities – Engagement, Consultation and Accountability  Part 2: Investigation  6. Criminal Investigations in Context  7. Legislation and Police Powers  8. Methods of Investigation  9. Investigation Strategies  Part 3: Intelligence  10. What is Intelligence?  11. Developing and Employing Intelligence  12. Intelligence-led Policing and the National Intelligence Model  13. Multi-Agency Approaches and Intelligence  Part 4: Investigative Practices  14. The Nature and Investigation of Sexual Offences  15. Organised and Transnational Crime  16. Forensic Investigation and Crime Science  17. Policing and Public Disorder  18. Future Directions 

Biography

Colin Rogers is a former senior police officer and is a Reader in Police Sciences at the University of Glamorgan; Rhobert Lewis is a former police officer, now Associate Dean and Director of the Centre for Police Studies at the University of Glamorgan; Tim John is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology at the University of Glamorgan; Tim Read is a former Senior Research Consultant for Evidence Led Solutions, a research consultancy working in the community safety field and currently Senior Lecturer in Police Science at Glamorgan University.