Effective Policing Implementation in Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

This book provides a unique insight into the way policing is performed. By embracing both organizational management issues as well as operational police business such as crime reduction and detection, firearms, disorder, organised crime and terrorism, it provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary police theory and practice.Preface 1. 'There are Police and there are Police', Exploring the Complexity of the Police Operating Framework 2. The Fundamental Building Blocks of Police Effectiveness 3. Reducing Crime 4. Investigating Crime and Bringing Offenders to Justice 5. Policing Critical Incidents and the Use of Force 6. Investigating Serious Organised Crime and Terrorism 7. Conclusion

This is an outstanding and engaging book that should be read by anyone interested understanding and improving policing. The author's background as a career police officer and his extensive discussions with serving police officers ensure that and his conclusions are relevant to the realities of policing [...] What Stuart Kirby produces is a rich account of the complexity and diversity of the policing task and a telling account of how the service might be made better. - Nick Tilley, UCL, UK

We all want our police to be effective, but as Stuart Kirby painstakingly points out in this book, this is far easier said than done. Not only do we also want our police to be efficient with our money and fair in how they treat us all, but we cannot even all agree as to what it means for the police to be effective. Kirby debunks many myths and misconceptions about the police, astutely laying out the enormous challenges faced in policing open and free modern societies. This book is a must-read for all interested in improving policing. - Michael S. Scott, University of Wisconsin Law School, USA

In this timely and important book Stuart Kirby addresses what is now the key issue in policing: how to put into practice the large body of knowledge that has al“%