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Book A History of Police in England

Download or read book A History of Police in England written by William Lauriston Melville Lee and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the British Police

Download or read book A History of the British Police written by Richard Cowley and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British Police

Book The Great British Bobby

Download or read book The Great British Bobby written by Clive Emsley and published by Quercus Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name 'Bobby' comes from Sir Robert Peel who, as home secretary, oversaw the creation of the Metropolitan Police in 1829. In spite of his position as a national institution and his appeal as a solution to present-day concerns about law and order, the social history of the Bobby has rarely been explored. Yet his story (and since the beginning of the twentieth century it is also her story) is as exciting as that of his military cousin, Tommy Atkins. Bobby served on the front line of what is often characterized as 'the war against crime.' He may rarely have fought in pitched battles and almost never with lethal weapons, but his life could be hard and dangerous. Up until the last third of the twentieth century he usually patrolled on foot, in all weathers by day and, more often, by night. The drudgery of the foot patrol fostered that other nickname, 'Mr Plod'; something that may, or may not, have passed Enid Blyton by when she chose the name for the policeman of Noddy's Toytown. The period covered by The Great British Bobby saw massive economic, social and political change in Britain. The policing institution has shifted significantly in tandem, from having its primary relationship directly with the decentralized, local community, to becoming an instrument of the central state with, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, targets set and regulated centrally for the good of what politicians and policing professionals consider as the national community. Criminological expert Clive Emsley is ideally placed to tell the story of this remarkable and iconic institution; his book is nothing less than a social history of Britain over the last 180 years.

Book Cops and Robbers  The Story of the British Police Car

Download or read book Cops and Robbers The Story of the British Police Car written by Ant Anstead and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking.

Book The English Police

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clive Emsley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-09-19
  • ISBN : 1317890248
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The English Police written by Clive Emsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of policing from the eighteenth century onwards, which draws on largely unused police archives. Clive Emsley addresses all the major issues of debate; he explores the impact of legislation and policy at both national and local levels, and considers the claim that the English police were non-political and free from political control. In the final section, he looks at the changing experience of police life. Established as a standard introduction to the subject on its first appearance, the Second Edition has been substantially revised and is now published under the Longman imprint for the first time.

Book The Regiment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Hamley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Regiment written by Richard Hamley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is generally accepted that the history of Rhodesia began in 1890, the history of that country's police force began a year earlier, in 1889. From the beginning, the Force held to the customs and traditions of a light cavalry regiment, with military ranks and disciplines and, reflecting the military ethos, laying emphasis upon a smartness of turnout and drill. The unique character of the Force developed from this time. Not only did it have to establish the rule of law, it also had to defend the borders of the country, a responsibility it held until 1953. This stunning volume, filled with the author's own vivid water color illustrations, traces the fascinating story of the British South Africa Police during its 90 year existence from 1890 to 1980.

Book A Short History of Police and Policing

Download or read book A Short History of Police and Policing written by Clive Emsley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of 'policing' that existed in the past. It examines the historical development of the various bodies, individuals, and officials who carried these out in different societies, in Europe and European colonies, but also with reference to countries such as ancient Egypt, China, and the USA. By demonstrating that policing was never the exclusive dominion of the police, and that the institution of the police, as we know it today, is a relatively recent creation, Professor Emsley explores the idea and reality of policing, and shows how an institution we now call 'the police' came to be virtually universal in our modern world.

Book The History of Policing

Download or read book The History of Policing written by Clive Emsley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the history of police and policing has become a key area of debate across a range of disciplines: criminology, sociology, political science and history. This authoritative series brings together the most important and influential English-language scholarship in the field, arranged chronologically across four volumes. The series includes articles on the shifting meaning of 'police', the growth of bureaucratic policing during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, consolidation in the twentieth century, and the international diffusion of export models and practices. The texts included come from a range of disciplines and chart the recent debates from traditional Whig history, revisionist work published during the last quarter of the twentieth century, and subsequent reassessments. Each volume is edited by a historian recognised as an authority in the area, and features an introductory essay which explains the key changes in the period and the significance of the selected articles and essays. The series provides a valuable resource for scholars new to the area as well as for those who may have overlooked an important essay or article published in an edited collection, or in a journal with limited circulation or from a discipline that they might not normally consult.

Book Line of Duty   the Real Story of British Police Corruption

Download or read book Line of Duty the Real Story of British Police Corruption written by Wensley Clarkson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of police corruption, bent coppers and the secret units who hunt them.

Book Undercover

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  • Author : Paul Lewis
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2013-06-25
  • ISBN : 0571302181
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Undercover written by Paul Lewis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by undercover police officers - troubling, timely and brilliantly executed.' Henry Porter The gripping stories of a group of police spies - written by the award-winning investigative journalists who exposed the Mark Kennedy scandal - and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage. This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor British 'subversives' - environmental activists, anti-racist groups, animal rights campaigners. Police stole the identities of dead people to create fake passports, driving licences and bank accounts. They then went deep undercover for years, inventing whole new lives so that they could live incognito among the people they were spying on. They used sex, intimate relationships and drugs to build their credibility. They betrayed friends, deceived lovers, even fathered children. And their operations continue today. Undercover reveals the truth about secret police operations - the emotional turmoil, the psychological challenges and the human cost of a lifetime of deception - and asks whether such tactics can ever be justified.

Book The History and Practice of the Political Police in Britain

Download or read book The History and Practice of the Political Police in Britain written by Tony Bunyan and published by London : Friedmann. This book was released on 1976 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black and Tans

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  • Author : D. M. Leeson
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2011-08-25
  • ISBN : 0191618918
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Black and Tans written by D. M. Leeson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the most notorious police forces in the history of the British Isles. During the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), the British government recruited thousands of ex-soldiers to serve as constables in the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Black and Tans, while also raising a paramilitary raiding force of ex-officers - the Auxiliary Division. From the summer of 1920 to the summer of 1921, these forces became the focus of bitter controversy. As the struggle for Irish independence intensified, the police responded to ambushes and assassinations by the guerrillas with reprisals and extrajudicial killings. Prisoners and suspects were abused and shot, the homes and shops of their families and supporters were burned, and the British government was accused of imposing a reign of terror on Ireland. Based on extensive archival research, this is the first serious study of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries and the part they played in the Irish War of Independence. Dr Leeson examines the organization and recruitment of the British police, the social origins of police recruits, and the conditions in which they lived and worked, along with their conduct and misconduct once they joined the force, and their experiences and states of mind. For the first time, it tells the story of the Irish conflict from the police perspective, while casting new light on the British government's responsibility for reprisals, the problems of using police to combat insurgents, and the causes of atrocities in revolutionary wars.

Book Inside the British Police

Download or read book Inside the British Police written by Simon Holdaway and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1983 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Resistance to British Policing

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  • Author : Adam Elliott-Cooper
  • Publisher : Racism, Resistance and Social Change
  • Release : 2021-05
  • ISBN : 9781526143938
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Black Resistance to British Policing written by Adam Elliott-Cooper and published by Racism, Resistance and Social Change. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain.

Book A Short History of the British Police

Download or read book A Short History of the British Police written by Charles Reith and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cops and Bobbies

Download or read book Cops and Bobbies written by Wilbur R. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how the two police forces of London and New York shaped their enduring public images in the mid-19th century. Documents and analyzes crucial decisions made during this period by heads of the police forces, which created distinctive styles of authority and fostered different public responses to the police image. First published in 1977, this edition provides a new preface discussing how police historiography has changed in the past 20 years. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Police and Community in Twentieth Century Scotland

Download or read book Police and Community in Twentieth Century Scotland written by Louise A. Jackson and published by EUP. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the 20th century.