scholarly journals Police officer retention in England and Wales

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Disney ◽  
Polly Simpson ◽  
Rowena Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Officer Retention

Police Family Dynamics

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Megan O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Community Support ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Performance Teams ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Police Forces

Chapter 5 describes and analyses the day-to-day encounters between Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and police officer colleagues. These encounters are important to consider in order to understand fully PCSOs’ occupational experiences. The pluralized public police in England and Wales are often described as a police ‘family’. However, just how functional and harmonious a family this is is shown to be variable between and within police forces. The chapter considers the reasons for this from within a dramaturgical framework, to appreciate fully the nature and organization of these face-to-face interactions. In particular, Goffman’s concepts of performances, teamwork, and regions will be used. The chapter argues that police officers and PCSOs operate as separate performance teams, rather than as one unified one, and that the relationships between these teams varies. In some areas, the teams worked in a complementary way, whereas in others, the relationship was competitive.

scholarly journals Understanding the Motivations, Morale, and Retention of Special Constables: Findings from a National Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 670-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Callender ◽  
Kathryn Cahalin ◽  
Sam J Cole ◽  
Luke Hubbard ◽  
Iain Britton
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Police Forces

Abstract Special Constables have an established history within British policing. The Special Constabulary has represented an under-researched aspect of policing, with motivations to join, morale, factors relating to length of service and reasons for leaving being poorly understood. This article draws upon data from a national survey of Special Constables undertaken across all police forces in England and Wales. The analysis illustrates differences in motivations, dependent on age, and length of service, with younger Special Constables viewing the role as a pathway to future paid employment as a Regular police officer. The results contradict perspectives that attribute attrition from the Special Constabulary primarily to changes in personal circumstances for Specials, demonstrating how such changes are less important than satisfaction with the experience of being a Special Constable. The article concludes by identifying the significance of the findings for future policy and practice in respect of the Special Constabulary.

scholarly journals Recruiting Frontstage Entextualization: drafting, artifactuality and written-ness as resources in police – witness interviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Rock
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Writing Processes ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Witness Statements ◽  
Witness Memory ◽  
Witness Interviews ◽  
Institutional Actors

AbstractThis paper examines the complex literacy event through which police witness statements are produced in England and Wales. Witness statements are constructed through interviews which archetypally consist of a trajectory from the witness of the crime, through a police officer and onto a written page with the officer taking most control of the writing. This paper examines how this ostensibly inevitable trajectory materializes in practice. It identifies a distinctive way of traversing the trajectory through which the inner workings of the trajectory itself are put on display by the interviewing officer and through this display recursively influence the trajectory. This display of the trajectory draws on four discursive means: writing aloud, proposing wordings, reading back text just written and referring explicitly to the artifactuality of writing, which I label, collectively, “Frontstage Entextualization.” Through Frontstage Entextualization, the writing process comes to be used as a resource for both producing text and involving the witness in text production. The paper identifies three forms of activity which are accomplished through Frontstage Entextualization: First, frontstage drafting which allows words and phrases for possible inclusion to be weighed-up; secondly, frontstage scribing which foregrounds the technology of pen and paper which allows the witness to be appraised of writing processes; and finally, frontstaging the sequentiality of written-ness to textually resolve difficulties of witness memory. The paper concludes by suggesting that the analysis has shown how text trajectories can be made accessible to lay participants by institutional actors.

Review Lecture - Forensic science

1977 ◽  
Vol 199 (1135) ◽  
pp. 189-198
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Science Laboratories

The influence of the scientist in the investigation of crime has grown rapidly since the establishment of regional forensic science laboratories about 40 years ago. Eight laboratories with a staff of about 700 now cover the whole of England and Wales and a fictional crime of kidnapping is used to illustrate how the scientist can help the police officer in his enquiries. A broken window with smears of blood on it together with tiny fragments of fibres can a great deal of useful information and the methods of investigation is described; the car the criminals used is defined by an examination of smears of paint on a gatepost, tyre marks in soil and fragments of headlamp lens. The use of computerized information banks dealing with analytical characteristics and their use throughout the country is discussed, together with techniques available for examining traces the criminals may have brought to, or left at the scene. Unsolved problems in forensic science are considered.

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