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Policing a Safe, Just and Tolerant Society
Author Peter Villiers and Robert Adlam
Foreword by
Conor Gearty
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Published
01/07/2004
ISBN-10
1904380093
ISBN-13
9781904380092
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Policing a Safe, Just and Tolerant Society
An International Model for Policing
~ Peter Villiers and Robert Adlam
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This book bases its title on the UK Home Office motto: ‘Building a Safe, Just and Tolerant Society’. But are these objectives always compatible – and might they need to be placed in order of priority? Is public safety a prior requisite for tolerance – and how integral to justice are tolerance and safety? To build and sustain a society that is tolerant safe and respects other fundamental principles is a key challenge of the modern era: and the theme of this book. From the authors of the acclaimed Police Leadership in the 21st Century (Waterside Press, 2003). With a Foreword by Conor Gearty plus other expert contributions .
In Police Leadership in the 21st Century the authors argued that policing by consent and democratic leadership fit together and that autocratic leadership has no place in modern policing. Democratic leadership, however, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success. The police service of a modernising democracy needs to be sure of its ethos and clear in its social philosophy if it is to assert and retain the operational independence from political direction that is needed for professional excellence.
At the same time, a modern police service needs to be able to achieve success in co-operation with other agencies in order to promote and sustain public safety within the context of a just and tolerant society. As Conor Gearty (Professor of Human Rights Law and Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics) writes in his preface to this volume:
The reader will find in these pages an approach to policing that, though it may originate in critical thinking in Britain and the US, goes far beyond both jurisdictions in its implications and application. Such breadth is especially to be welcomed in this age of increased global co-operation in policing. The police officer wherever he or she might be in the world should wear the badge of virtue as well as of authority, and a great strength of this book is that it explains what this means while also showing that it is possible.
New work by Edwin Delattre, John Kleinig, Charles Heffernan, Alasdair MacIntyre, Seumas Miller, Milan Pagon and others explores the changing demands on police virtue in the new era and identifies the fundamental values that need to be re-appraised and if necessary re-asserted. Satish Kumar would prefer to see a society working towards compassion than one that rested at the half-way stage of tolerance. From another perspective, Sir David Calvert-Smith, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, argues that there must be limits to tolerance itself: for no society will wish to tolerate the intolerable. David Canter compares the work of the police officer and that of the academic and points out how each needs the other, drawing on both new and long-established work on the psychology of prejudice in order to illustrate how the transformation of an organisation requires more than good intent however necessary that may be as an impetus to change. Garry Elliott, a serving police officer, examines the police approach to the sharing of best practice within the context of the modernising of public services. In conclusion, Robert Panzarella explores the emerging model of public safety policing from both an historical and contemporary perspective.
Policing a Safe Just and Tolerant Society will be of interest to police officers everywhere as well as to anyone interested in the question whether three key objectives of government policy may only be capable of delivery through ethical, effective and appropriately resourced policing.
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