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THE POLICE SERVICE AFTER THE WAR: STRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION
Author(s) -
PARKER K. A. L.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1990.tb00772.x
Subject(s) - service (business) , administration (probate law) , politics , object (grammar) , subject (documents) , law , political science , public relations , criminology , public administration , sociology , business , library science , computer science , marketing , artificial intelligence
The police service is now the subject of intense political and considerable academic interest. But 40 years ago neither of these factors applied. Jenifer Hart's book (1951) still gives the best picture of the service in the immediate post‐war years, with the additional authority of her previous service in the Home Office, but it has long been out of print. There is no other detailed description of the police as it was then, although it is dealt with as part of a much larger picture in Critchley (1967) and in Stead (1985). The object of this article is to look at what was done ‐ or left undone ‐ in those post‐war years, before the opportunity is lost of enhancing the records (such as they are) from personal experience, with emphasis on matters of current concern. This is an administrative study, and no attempt is made to deal with police operations or with changes in the law affecting police practice. Nor does it deal with the police in Scotland or Northern Ireland.