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01 January 1991

POLICE FORCE
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 011056 , Acc Date = 01-Aug-87
T Morris
New Soc, 20 Mar 1987 79(1264) pp12-14

Argues that the populist model of the police, in which the
policeman is seen as a citizen in uniform rather than as an agent
of the government, bears increasingly little resemblance to
reality. Under a government which refuses or is unable to address
the underlying causes of deprivation and poverty, the police are
compelled to take on a greater role in the control of public
disorder. The difficulties of combining riot control and
community policing within one force are reflected in the loss of
mutual trust between the police and some sections of the
community, and in the growing concern of the public at large in
the failure of the police to control `ordinary' crime. Concludes
that changes to improve the accountability of the police are
essential if it is not to develop, in the public mind, into a
centralised private army enforcing the dominant ideology of the
party in power.

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