Policing UK 2013 - Police Federation

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OVERVIEW
6 Policing 2013
An introduction by
Sir Denis O’Connor
8 Unprecedented change
An introduction by Peter Neyroud
10 Policing since 1964
Dr Timothy Brain outlines the
history of policing in Britain
since the Police Act
12 A singular focus on cutting crime
The Rt Hon Theresa May outlines
the police reform agenda
14 The latest reforms
Peter Neyroud provides an overview
of the UK coalition government’s
police reforms
16 A different trajectory?
Professor Nicholas Fyfe looks at
police reform in Scotland
18 Funding the force
Bill Wilkinson examines the
prospects for police budgets
22 Hard times
Professor Steven N. Durlauf and
Professor Daniel S. Nagin give a
US perspective on crime control
in a time of budget austerity
THE POLICE REFORM
PROGRAMME
24 Brave new world
Fraser Sampson on the role of the
new police and crime commissioners
28 The National Crime Agency
Peter Neyroud asks whether the
new NCA will meet the challenge of
serious and organised crime?
30 A new identity
Sir Hugh Orde reports on the move
to establish a College of Policing
32 Institutional change
Royston Martis interviews
Derek Barnett
34 An outsourcing journey
Neil Rhodes describes his force’s early
experience of strategic partnership
38 A wide-ranging partnership
Jacqui Cheer discusses the Cleveland
Steria partnership
40 Fair play on pay and conditions?
Peter Neyroud gives a personal
assessment of the Winsor Report
42 Constables in the firing line
Paul McKeever expresses the
concerns of the rank and file
police officers
“The changes we’re making to policing
amount to the most wide ranging and
fundamental reform in 180 years.”
The Rt Hon Theresa May
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