Mayberry revisited

A review of the influence of police paramilitary units on policing

Bibliographic Data

ID14985232
AuthorsGarth Den Heyer (0000-0003-1133-2855, Police Foundation, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume24
Issue3
Pages346-361
Publication date2014-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicing & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1043-9463 • E-ISSN: 1477-2728
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10439463.2013.784304
OpenAlexW2079614360
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited16

In the mid-1990s, two separate surveys of the Police Paramilitary Units (PPUs) were undertaken, which have been used to assert that police are becoming militarised. The assertion is based on the survey's findings that the number of PPUs had increased between 1980 and 1995 in cities with populations between 25,000 and 50,000, and cities with populations of more than 50,000. The survey authors' claim, from their limited analysis of the survey findings, that the increase in number of PPUs or in the increase in the number of their deployments is not a result of the increase in criminal offending nor is it because policing has entered a new era. This paper refutes the proposition that policing has become or has increased in militarisation and analyses the original survey findings and subsequent literature in a wider context, which includes the argument of the professionalisation or the evolution of policing

Archaeology · Assertion · Criminology · Geography · Political science · Proposition · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Survey data collection · Survey research · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions

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