Legal limits to prioritisation in policing – challenging the impact of centralisation

This article illustrates, through a combination of administrative and legal perspectives, how ambitions to centralise prioritisation decisions within a police organisation can be limited by the legal rules relating to crime investigations and public order policing. As a case study, we use the centra...

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Main Author: Landström, Lena (Author)
Contributors: Eklund, Niklas ; Naarttijärvi, Markus
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Policing and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 9, Pages: 1061-1080
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Keywords:
Policing
Discretion
positive obligations
prioritisation

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