ABSTRACT
Law enforcement encompasses many roles and a number of contestable definitions. Moreover, police jurisdictions can never be divorced from the more extensive domain of the justice system within which the police operate. Terrorism is particularly relevant to the general study of uncertainty because its key modus operandum is to create fear and uncertainty in the general community with the aim of increasing the likelihood of achieving its political goals. This chapter considers how law enforcement can reduce uncertainty in the community through transparency and accountability. It also considers some of the ethical issues that are applicable to the majority of law enforcement activity but which pose particularly acute challenges in relation to counter-terrorism.
