Professional Police Practice Scenarios and Dilemmas

Author: P A J Waddington; Martin Wright John Kleinig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199639182
Published In: June 2013
Format: Paperback , 240 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The only scenario-based approach to developing professional awareness in policing
Offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards, aiming to capture some of the complexities and interpretations that form the basis of professional standards in policing today
Scenarios include ethical dilemmas relating to public order and intelligence situations, as well as personal difficulties, such as compromised officers

This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing. With a radical, scenario-based approach, featuring both the extraordinary and the seemingly mundane, it aims to capture some of the complexities and interpretations that form the basis of such professional standards in policing today. Awareness of professional ethics has become not only a central requirement of officers seeking promotion to the senior ranks, but also a necessity within the training framework of UK policing, so the editors have brought together contributions from both practitioners and academics in order stimulate debate and present contrasting views.

Split into five parts, each begins with a realistic scenario posing a distinctive dilemma, not just ethical but also legal and political. Ranging from community policing and the use of intelligence to problems arising from the conduct of superiors, the scenarios invite the reader to place themselves in the midst of an acute policing dilemma and asks how they would navigate an appropriate path through it to a desirable end. As the reader considers such questions, contributions from police officers both in the UK and abroad, as well as academics connected to the policing world, offer personal and professional responses to the situation at hand - resulting in wildly differing but no less important opinions. Finally, each of the five parts concludes with commentary from the editors which, rather than offer solutions, seeks to frame both the scenario and response within a more neutral setting. Equally, and perhaps understandably, these commentaries also throw into sharp relief the plethora of opinions and perspectives that have yet to be addressed.

Professional Police Practice represents a considered but innovative evaluation of the nature of professional standards within policing, using common, everyday dilemmas that any police officer would recognise. By drawing on a range of opinions, from different areas of policing and different jurisdictions, the editors hope to inspire a degree of reflection and self-examination in anyone, either within policing or connected to it, as they consider the dilemma and their own response to it, and challenge them to recognise similar difficulties in their own operational roles.

Readership: Professional Standards Trainers and department senior staff, senior officers and managers, Inspectors Part 2 promotion officers, Policing academics and Policing students, force libraries.

Part One - Police Practice and Ethics
1: P.A.J. Waddington: Introduction
2: John Kleinig: Reflections on Teaching Police Ethics with Scenarios
Part Two - The Compromised Senior Officer
3: Scenario: The Compromised Senior Officer
4: Jenny Fleming & Juani O'Reilly: Addressing the Scenario: Integrity Insights and Dangerous Liaisons
5: Peter Neyroud & Colin Paine: Addressing the Scenario: A Socratic Police Dialogue
6: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary
Part Three - 'A Free Cup of Coffee' Problem
7: Scenario: 'A Free Cup of Coffee'
8: Sarah Stewart: Addressing the Scenario: Ethical Policing Practice in Community Policing
9: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary
Part Four - Community Negotiation
10: Scenario: Community Negotiation
11: Vern Neufeld Redekop: Addressing the Scenario: Mutual Respect, Complexity and Community Dialogue: Charting a New Path
12: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary
13: Vern Neufeld Redekop: Author's Response
Part Five - Intelligence
14: Scenario: Intelligence
15: Steve Darroch: Addressing the Scenario: The Dilemmas of Intelligence and Ethical Police Practice: Policing Terrorism and Managing Covert Human Sources
16: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary
17: Steve Darroch: Author's Response
Part 6 - Public Order
18: Scenario: Public Order (Nuclear Power Plant)
19: Monique Marks & Sean Tait: Addressing the Scenario: Nuclear Power Plant Scenario: Responding to a Complex Public Order Policing Situation
20: Michael Messinger: Addressing the Scenario: Public Order Command: Dilemmas of Police Practice
21: P.A.J. Waddington: Editor's Commentary

Edited by P A J Waddington, Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director, Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection, University of Wolverhampton, and Martin Wright, Director, Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection and Head of Department of Uniformed Services, University of Wolverhampton

John Kleinig, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York and CSU, Canberra, Australia

P A J Waddington is Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection at the University of Wolverhampton. He has over 30 years of academic research and is the initiator of the BSc (Hons) Policing degree.

Dr Martin Wright, a retired police inspector, is the Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection and Head of Department of Uniformed Services at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the lead for the BSc Policing, Fire & Rescue and Armed Forces degrees.

John Kleinig is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Professorial Fellow in Criminal Justice Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Canberra, Australia).

Contributors:
Inspector Steve Darroch, New Zealand Police
Professor Jenny Fleming, Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton, UK
Professor Monique Marks, Community Development Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Michael Messinger, former Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service, UK
Peter Neyroud CBE QPM, former Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police and former Chief Constable and CEO of the National Policing Improvement Agency, UK
Juani O'Reilly, Federal Agent, Australian Federal Police
Superintendent Colin Paine, Thames Valley Police, UK
Vern Neufeld Redekop, Associate Professor, Conflict Studies Program, St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
Senior Sergeant Sarah Stewart, New Zealand Police
Sean Tait, African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum, South Africa