The angered versus the endangered: PCCs, roads policing and the challenges of assessing and representing ‘public opinion’

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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Wells, Helen (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2018
In: The British journal of criminology
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Bürgernähe
Chief Constables
Community Speedwatch
Mandate
Police and Crime Commissioners
Polizeiarbeit
Public
Roads policing
Verkehrspolizei
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azw079