Self-check questions and answers
1. Alongside what other factors did Chan suggest that professionalism had been an important component of police reform?
Answer:
alongside bureaucratic measures and quasi-market approaches
2. What did Vollmer suggest ought to be required of all Chicago police recruits in order to enhance professionalism?
Answer:
that they be required to complete a degree
3. How much did Weisburd and Neyroud suggest the UK government spent on medical research and on crime research?
Answer:
£600 million and £2 million
4. What are the Triple-Ts that might underpin scientific models of policing?
Answer:
targeting, testing and tracking
5. Which police services withdrew plans to consider privatising police services in the aftermath of problems relating to policing the London 2012 Olympics?
Answer:
Surrey and West Midlands police
6. What role might Police and Crime Commissioners play in the development of pluralism?
Answer:
through procuring services from a range of providers and encouraging police services to engage with a plurality of agencies
7. What proportion of police funding was cut in the 2010 government spending review?
8. What did Field suggest had a stronger impact on offending: unemployment rates or patterns of consumption?
Answer:
patterns of consumption
9. The chief of which service suggested that global warming would be a major challenge for police?
Answer:
the Australian Federal Police
10. How did Loader characterise government strategy to refocus police work?
Answer:
as an effort to ‘release the police’s inner crime-fighter’
