Invisible Policing
Inside the world of covert surveillance
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. January 2026
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-138-93489-4 (ISBN)
Description
What is covert policing? How do covert surveillance officers use their time? What are their perceptions of the work, its status, rewards and challenges? How are operations planned, authorised, carried out and reviewed? How do officers understand and negotiate the dilemmas involved in carrying out the peculiar demands of their job? Does the existing authorisation regime strike an appropriate balance between the need for police accountability and the protection of civil liberties on the one hand, and operational efficiency and the demands of security on the other?
This book provides answers to these questions and more, and presents the first truly ethnographic account of the inner-world of covert policing. This book sheds new light on a largely hidden and poorly understood form of investigation and offers a major contrubution to research on police culture and police practice.
This book provides answers to these questions and more, and presents the first truly ethnographic account of the inner-world of covert policing. This book sheds new light on a largely hidden and poorly understood form of investigation and offers a major contrubution to research on police culture and police practice.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-93489-4 (9781138934894)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
University of Manchester, UK
University of British Columbia, Canada
University of Oxford, UK
Content
Prologue, 1. Situating Covert Policing, 2. The Regulation of Covert Policing, 3. Watching the Watchers, 4. Under Surveillance, 5. An Erudite Occupational Culture, 6. Normalising the Exceptional, 7. Grim RIPA?, Conclusions