ABSTRACT
This book is written for those who want to know about policing practices and the underlying principles of that occupation. In particular it will be of use to those who have a general interest in policing, those who are undergoing their initial training as police officers and those undertaking the study of policing as part of an undergraduate or public services course in higher or further education. The police organisation has been under pressure from successive governments to change for quite some time, and this process appears to have accelerated recently due to the economic recession, with reports from the Audit Commission (2010) and HMIC (2010) suggesting that radical changes may take place in these times of austerity.
