ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, inter alia, we offered a (normative) teleological account of the institution of the police. Institutions consist of individual persons who occupy roles defined in terms of tasks, and rules, regulations and procedures. Normatively speaking, these roles are related to one another in terms of their contribution to the goal(s) or end(s) or function(s) of the institution, and also (usually) hierarchically. In the case of the institution of the police, the end or function is the protection of (justifiably enforceable) legally enshrined moral rights. The relationship between the constitutive roles of an institution can be referred to as the "structure" of the institution.
