ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a set of democratic principles, which serve as a means for thinking about the challenges of governing plural policing networks in ways that ensure their arrangement and provision advance democratic values. It also divided into the four sections. The first outlines the recent growth of plural policing, identifying the conceptual implications that arise from this empirical development. The second contextualises the regulatory challenge of plural policing, before critiquing recent legal and policy responses. The third assesses plural policing against a set of democratic criteria, drawing attention to the governance and accountability challenges of prioritising these democratic credentials. Finally, it emphasises the need for a holistic approach to the governance of plural policing networks, and considers how this might be secured in ways that are democratically accountable. To this end, primary aim in this chapter has been to steer debates towards the challenges of aligning the order of plural policing to a set of democratic criteria.
