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Police Authority and Practices

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1962
Law enforcement requires a sensitive and wise discretion in police decisions whether or not to invoke the criminal process when law violators are uncovered. As an administrative and moral necessity, the policeman informally judges and settles more cases than he takes to court.
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Police reform: from police authorities to police and crime commissioners

Safer Communities, 2011
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider the background of the proposal contained in the coalition government's Police and Social Responsibility legislation to replace police authorities with directly elected police and crime commissioners (PCCs) and to evaluate the potential problems that will arise from this reform.Design/methodology ...
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Police Accountability in the Provinces: The Changing Role of the Police Authority

Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 2001
This article explores the changing role of local police authorities in England and Wales following the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994, and seeks to ascertain the status and functions now accorded to the police authority. Using a range of reports from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), it considers the implications of new ...
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The Operation of Some Police Authorities

1987
It may be remembered that the Royal Commissioners who considered this matter and reported in 1962 were of the opinion that a Police Authority ought to have four main duties: (a) to provide an adequate police force for its area, properly paid, equipped, housed and administered.
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A Police Authority—the Denial of Conflict

The Sociological Review, 1977
‘I'm sorry you're not satisfied. We like to co-operate, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll call an early meeting of the Watch Committee and put you on the agenda.’ ‘That would be kind of you.’ Matlock had halted as he left. ‘Do you remember a time, Chief Constable, when Watch Committees gave instructions to the police?’
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The Police Authority for Northern Ireland

1987
The constitution of the Police Authority was laid down in Schedule 1 of the Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970, and is as follows: The Authority consists of a chairman who is paid such remuneration and other allowances (including allowances by way of superannuation) as the Secretary of State, with the approval of the Treasury, may determine; and a ...
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The Police Authority

2023
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Scrutiny, legal socialization, and defiance: Understanding how procedural justice and bounded‐authority concerns shape Muslims’ defiance toward police

Journal of Social Issues, 2021
Kristina Murphy
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Concept and Scope of Police Authority

1991
Abstract Challenges to the legitimacy of the social and political order lacked any intellectual tradition justifying resistance to established authority, and only served to confirm the inflexible grip of the ruling class and its ideological apparatus on politics and society. As a result, that order remained, at least until the end of the
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Police Authorities of the Republic of Korea

Administrative law and procedure
The article is dedicated to problems of police functioning in the Republic of Korea (the RK, Republic). The author mentions a number of documents that govern the activities of police of the Republic. South Korean police is in the structure of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security.
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