Police and Crime Commissioners

The Transformation of Police Accountability

Jane Owens author Bryn Caless author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Policy Press

Published:30th Mar '16

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Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are elected representatives whose role is to ensure that police forces in England and Wales are running effectively. Intended to bring a public voice to policing and hold the police to account, the holders of this controversial role also control budgets and strategic planning. Bryn Caless and Jane Owens obtained unprecedented access to the PCCs and their chief police officer teams and undertook confidential interviews with both sides. The results reveal the innermost workings of the PCCs’ relationships with the police, media, partners and public. The authors analyse the election process (in which PCCs polled the lowest local mandate ever) and consider the future of this politically-contested role. Examining the PCCs’ impact on policing, this fascinating book makes essential reading for Police Crime Commissioners, chief officers, police officers, police trainers and academics, students and researchers in criminology and policing.

"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 provide a depth of narrative that is rich and reminiscent" - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
"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

ISBN: 9781447320708

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256 pages