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3 days ago · A police chief must overcome an assissination plot and political games in order to speak at a local meeting of police-haters.
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Nov 17, 2016 · targeted killing is a controversial practice. Indeed, it is sometimes referred to as extrajudicial killing, thereby implying it is unlawful. Moreover, targeted killing needs to be distinguished from assassination, a practice that is typically unlawful.
- Introduction
- Legitimacy
- Contemporary Police Governance
- Chief Police Officers’ Accounts of Governance
- Operational Independence After The PRSRA
- Chief Officers’ Concerns About Career Security and Progression
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
This article uses empirical research (Shannon, 2018) to consider the implications for police legitimacy of how chief police officers are held to account and given political direction (their governance) and the effect this has on them. It argues that the mechanism and manner of police governance is important because it influences what chief officers...
Policing is continually constructed and constrained by a quest for legitimacy (Bowling et al., 2019, p. 65–98) and this research is framed by a selective consideration of legitimacy literature. Beetham (1991) proposed that legitimacy is a right to exercise power that is broadly accepted and underpinned by rules rooted in widely shared values and is...
This article addresses how chief police officers are overseen and directed now, but context is required to explain why governance was changed by the PRSRA. After the ‘Police Act 1964’ an accrual of legislation, government guidance and performance regimes eroded the influence of police authorities. Notable among these changes was the Conservative Go...
The empirical data used in this article were gathered in semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted in 2016 (Shannon, 2018) with nine chief constables, three deputy chief constables, and four assistant chief constables, including the equivalent ranks in London (the rank designations applied outside London are used for all). The officers serve...
Operational independence and the benefits it may provide in building legitimacy by protecting police from improper political interference (Royal Commission on the Police, 1962) remains, as discussed earlier, contested (Jefferson and Grimshaw, 1984; Simey, 1988; Patten, 1999; Savage et al., 2000). The ‘Policing Protocol Order’ (Home Office, 2011) re...
Participants claimed PCCs pose the greatest risk to their jobs and professional prospects, but other institutions were also said to raise anxieties. Increased HMICFRS and IOPC activity were repeatedly raised, and there was nostalgia for a Home Office that participants perceived had engaged meaningfully with them, reminiscent of Loader’s (2006)accou...
Chief officers’ power does not stop them feeling anxious and they can be exposed to pressures that those who are less visible do not experience.9 Vulnerability is particularly disempowering if the ‘individual does not self-identify as vulnerable’ (Dehaghani, 2019, p. 40) and chief officers may be reluctant to do so. Their anxieties seemed to increa...
This article has shown how recently introduced governance arrangements heightened chief police officers’ anxieties about their job security, career prospects, and operational autonomy. This may sap their confidence, leading to them failing to resist political directions that undermine civil liberties or prioritize the needs of the powerful over tho...
The author is grateful to Professors Stuart Lister and Adam Crawford at the University of Leeds, and to Professor Sandra Walklate and Dr Lynn Hancock at the University of Liverpool, for their guidance, support and patience. He also thanks the chief police officers who contributed to the research and the Economic and Social Research Council for supp...
- Ian Shannon
- 2021
Aug 27, 2020 · Using a series of scenarios, we explore professional ethics and integrity by analysing the evidence from our survey of around 1,500 police officers, police community support officers (PCSOs) and police support staff.
- Louise Westmarland, Steve Conway
- 2020
This article offers a fresh view on character assassination as a strategic effort embedded in power and ideological struggles in society. The author uses structuration theory to explain character assassination as a means of both domination and subversion.
- Sergei A. Samoilenko
- 2021
Aug 20, 2024 · Butler Township Police Officer Drew Blasko paced angrily along the AGR building, where just minutes before a gunman had clambered atop the roof, aimed an AR-15-style rifle at Donald Trump and...
Apr 24, 2022 · Policies and ethics. Though Elizabeth was a well-beloved queen, there were also throughout her reign many plots to assassinate her. While there were plots against the queen from the beginning of her reign, they became far more frequent and dangerous in 1568 once Mary Stuart fled to...
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