Police and Public in the United Kingdom

Bibliographic Data

ID10073719
AuthorsJ J Tobias (corresponding author)
Year1972
Volume7
Issue1
Pages201-219
Publication date1972-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002200947200700112
OpenAlexW2002017802
LanguageEN
Citations received9

there is a peculiar quality in the relationship between the police and the public of this country . . . It is attested by the foreign visitor whose favourable comments on our police are well known, and it is demonstrated in the common every-day instances in which people instinctively consult a policeman when in difficulty or perplexity even of a minor kind... It is not generally disputed that there is a kind of relationship between the policeman and the man in the street in this country which is of the greatest value. This passage has been criticised by Professor Michael Banton, who mentions the high quality and reputation of the Swedish (and probably other Scandinavian) police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and adds 'There are police departments in the United States and probably in many other industrial countries with standards little different from those in Britain

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