Police and Crime Commissioners

The transformation of police accountability

By: Bryn Caless, Jane Owens

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Hardcover | 30 March 2016

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256 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.91

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The book will be based on an empirical study that considers the roles and functions of Police Crime Commissioners (PCCs). It will compare the experiences of different PCCs as well as the thoughts and opinions of the police teams who work with them.The authors will conduct interviews with up to half of the PCC incumbents, matched with an interview with a member of their strategic police team where possible and provide anonymity to all those interviewed. In addition, HM Inspector of Constabulary responsible for oversight of the PCCs, Zoe Billingham, has agreed to an interview on the record with Bryn Caless about PCCs and the future of the role.The research will provide an informed and objective view of this important and innovative institution for British policing. The PCCs represent the first elected police governance body and the literature about PCCs and local accountability for police forces will be placed in the larger context of police accountability in general and analysis of the democratic principle that those who wield force on behalf of the state must be answerable to those whom they police.

Industry Reviews

"Caless and Owens provide a depth of narrative that is rich and reminiscent" - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
"This book is the most extensive and in-depth empirical study of Police and Crime Commissioners conducted to date. It provides fascinating insight into how these new constitutional actors are flexibly interpreting and discretely adapting to their responsibilities for governing the police." Stuart Lister, University of Leeds
"Caless and Owens are to be congratulated on this rich and incisive analysis of Police and Crime Commissioners - a ground-breaking account of great value to scholars of policing and governance alike." Michael Rowe, Northumbria University
"This fascinating account gives a unique insight into what Commissioners and their Chief Constables were thinking, and what went on behind closed doors, in those early months of PCCs." Nick Alston, PCC for Essex & Chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners

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