Professional Police Practice

Scenarios and Dilemmas

Edited by P A J Waddington, Professor John Kleinig, and Martin Wright

The only scenario-based approach to developing professional awareness in policing
Offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards, aiming to capture some of the complexities and interpretations that form the basis of professional standards in policing today
Scenarios include ethical dilemmas relating to public order and intelligence situations, as well as personal difficulties, such as compromised officers

Professional Police Practice

Scenarios and Dilemmas

Edited by P A J Waddington, Professor John Kleinig, and Martin Wright

Description

This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing. With a radical, scenario-based approach, featuring both the extraordinary and the seemingly mundane, it aims to capture some of the complexities and interpretations that form the basis of such professional standards in policing today. Awareness of professional ethics has become not only a central requirement of officers seeking promotion to the senior ranks, but also a necessity within the training framework of UK policing, so the editors have brought together contributions from both practitioners and academics in order stimulate debate and present contrasting views.

Split into five parts, each begins with a realistic scenario posing a distinctive dilemma, not just ethical but also legal and political. Ranging from community policing and the use of intelligence to problems arising from the conduct of superiors, the scenarios invite the reader to place themselves in the midst of an acute policing dilemma and asks how they would navigate an appropriate path through it to a desirable end. As the reader considers such questions, contributions from police officers both in the UK and abroad, as well as academics connected to the policing world, offer personal and professional responses to the situation at hand - resulting in wildly differing but no less important opinions. Finally, each of the five parts concludes with commentary from the editors which, rather than offer solutions, seeks to frame both the scenario and response within a more neutral setting. Equally, and perhaps understandably, these commentaries also throw into sharp relief the plethora of opinions and perspectives that have yet to be addressed.

Professional Police Practice represents a considered but innovative evaluation of the nature of professional standards within policing, using common, everyday dilemmas that any police officer would recognise. By drawing on a range of opinions, from different areas of policing and different jurisdictions, the editors hope to inspire a degree of reflection and self-examination in anyone, either within policing or connected to it, as they consider the dilemma and their own response to it, and challenge them to recognise similar difficulties in their own operational roles.

Professional Police Practice

Scenarios and Dilemmas

Edited by P A J Waddington, Professor John Kleinig, and Martin Wright

Part One - Police Practice and Ethics
1:Introduction, P.A.J. Waddington
2:Reflections on Teaching Police Ethics with Scenarios, John Kleinig
Part Two - The Compromised Senior Officer
3:Scenario: The Compromised Senior Officer
4:Addressing the Scenario: Integrity Insights and Dangerous Liaisons, Jenny Fleming & Juani O'Reilly
5:Addressing the Scenario: A Socratic Police Dialogue, Peter Neyroud & Colin Paine
6:Editor's Commentary, P.A.J. Waddington
Part Three - 'A Free Cup of Coffee' Problem
7:Scenario: 'A Free Cup of Coffee'
8:Addressing the Scenario: Ethical Policing Practice in Community Policing, Sarah Stewart
9:Editor's Commentary, P.A.J. Waddington
Part Four - Community Negotiation
10:Scenario: Community Negotiation
11:Addressing the Scenario: Mutual Respect, Complexity and Community Dialogue: Charting a New Path, Vern Neufeld Redekop
12:Editor's Commentary, P.A.J. Waddington
13:Author's Response, Vern Neufeld Redekop
Part Five - Intelligence
14:Scenario: Intelligence
15:Addressing the Scenario: The Dilemmas of Intelligence and Ethical Police Practice: Policing Terrorism and Managing Covert Human Sources, Steve Darroch
16:Editor's Commentary, P.A.J. Waddington
17:Author's Response, Steve Darroch
Part 6 - Public Order
18:Scenario: Public Order (Nuclear Power Plant)
19:Addressing the Scenario: Nuclear Power Plant Scenario: Responding to a Complex Public Order Policing Situation, Monique Marks & Sean Tait
20:Addressing the Scenario: Public Order Command: Dilemmas of Police Practice, Michael Messinger
21:Editor's Commentary, P.A.J. Waddington

Professional Police Practice

Scenarios and Dilemmas

Edited by P A J Waddington, Professor John Kleinig, and Martin Wright

Author Information

Edited by P A J Waddington, Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director, Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection, University of Wolverhampton, Professor John Kleinig, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA and Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, CSU, Australia, and Martin Wright, Director, Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection and Head of Department of Uniformed Services, University of Wolverhampton

P A J Waddington is Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection at the University of Wolverhampton. He has over 30 years of academic research and is the initiator of the BSc (Hons) Policing degree.

Dr Martin Wright, a retired police inspector, is the Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection and Head of Department of Uniformed Services at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the lead for the BSc Policing, Fire & Rescue and Armed Forces degrees.

John Kleinig is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Professorial Fellow in Criminal Justice Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Canberra, Australia).

Contributors:

Inspector Steve Darroch, New Zealand Police
Professor Jenny Fleming, Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton, UK
Professor Monique Marks, Community Development Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Michael Messinger, former Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service, UK
Peter Neyroud CBE QPM, former Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police and former Chief Constable and CEO of the National Policing Improvement Agency, UK
Juani O'Reilly, Federal Agent, Australian Federal Police
Superintendent Colin Paine, Thames Valley Police, UK
Vern Neufeld Redekop, Associate Professor, Conflict Studies Program, St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
Senior Sergeant Sarah Stewart, New Zealand Police
Sean Tait, African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum, South Africa

Professional Police Practice

Scenarios and Dilemmas

Edited by P A J Waddington, Professor John Kleinig, and Martin Wright

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The Cuadrilla fracking site: a policing dilemma

By P.A.J. Waddington I'm not claiming to be clairvoyant, but the current controversy concerning Cuadrilla's fracking site at Balcombe, West Sussex, is eerily similar to one of the five scenarios that form the foundations for the book I and my colleagues, John Kleinig and Martin Wright have recently published.

Posted on August 24, 2013

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