RT Article
T1 The angered versus the endangered: PCCs, roads policing and the challenges of assessing and representing ‘public opinion’
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 1
SP 95
OP 113
A1 Wells, Helen 1977-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1576101460
AB Part of the rationale for introducing elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) was a suggestion that the police and public needed to be ‘reconnected’, with the public more readily able to shape the type of policing they wished to receive. Apparently underpinning this intention was a perception that a single public view about policing priorities could, and would, make itself apparent to PCCs. This paper considers how PCCs assess their public mandate by focusing on an often contested policing activity—roads policing. It considers why this particular issue is particularly likely to be understood by PCCs as a contested topic and, furthermore, how PCCs go about accessing and representing diverse views within this ‘consumer-led’ approach to the provision of policing.
K1 Police and Crime Commissioners
K1 Chief Constables
K1 Roads policing
K1 Mandate
K1 Public
K1 Community Speedwatch
K1 Polizeiarbeit
K1 Bürgernähe
K1 Verkehrspolizei
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw079