Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedure [Paperback]

This practical handbook offers guidance on good practice in core policing areas. It draws together practical advice across a wide range of police duties, along with extracts and explanations of official policy and guidance from ACPO, the NPIA/College of Policing and the National Centre for Policing Excellence.Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice and Procedureis a companion volume to the successfulBlackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Law. Offering guidance on good practice in core policing areas, it draws together practical advice across a wide range of police duties. With extracts and explanations of official policy and guidance, each chapter is accompanied by features such as boxed examples, checklists, diagrams, practical tips and flow-charts, providing you with an unparalleled guide to good policing practice.Presenting a structured approach to police work, based on established national principles and practices thisHandbookis divided into four parts: Evidence Management, which offers advice on the capture and handling of evidence with chapters on crime scene management, disclosure, witness and victim management and court procedure; Knowledge-based Policing, which outlines the National Intelligence Model, the role of Police and Crime Commissioners, ACPO values, human rights, planning and risk management and dealing with the media; Neighbourhood Policing, which covers the principles and team structures, partnerships, problem-solving techniques and crime prevention; and Protective Services Policing which looks at the role of the first responder in major incident response, major crime, and civil contingencies.With 34 contributions from leading practitioners in policing, thisHandbookwill be invaluable to all operational personnel, particularly neighbourhood policing teams (NPTs), trainee investigators and policing students.I - Evidence Management1. Instant Resolutions,Matt Ebeling2. Scene lC-