The author of this book describes how it is all too easy for quite "ordinary" police officers to descend into behaviour which is difficult to comprehend, as a result of state manoeuvring, police culture, and what he believes is a lack of any fundamental values for police work. Through an account of what Alderson calls "high police", and by way of examples from around the world - including Northern Ireland, Tiananmen Square, Nazi Germany, J. Edgar Hoover''s days at the FBI, and the British miners'' strike of 1984/85 - he advocates the creation of a code of principles designed to act as a touchstone for police everywhere.
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978-1-908162-50-2 (9781908162502)
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