What Matters in Policing?

Auke van Dijk is a strategic policy advisor (Dutch National Police) working on strategy, critical debate and values, organizational development and redesigning police leadership trainingFrank Hoogewoning is a strategic policy advisor (Dutch National Police) working on anti-social behaviour, order maintenance, vulnerable groups, strategy and redesigning police leadership trainingMaurice Punch (London School of Economics) has taught, researched and published widely in the UK, US and Netherlands on policing, police corruption and corporate crime

"An insightful and valuable piece that should be an essential preparation for aspiring senior police and a reminder for serving leaders." Policing "A persuasive, penetrating and insightful glimpse, through the lens of leadership, into how two influential police systems in countries with very different histories are repositioning themselves within the 'rough waters' of security governance." Clifford Shearing, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Griffith University, Australia "The police forces of The Netherlands and UK are undergoing convulsive changes. If those changes are to be effectively directed in a more uncertain and demanding world, this book provides a compelling case and roadmap for police leadership and its development, whatever the country." Michael Useem, Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US

• Foreword: A Crisis in Public Policing ~ Peter Neyroud;Preface;Policing in perilous times: change and leadership;Police systems, perspectives and contested paradigms;Sea of troubles: the nature of policing;When matters become ‘really real’: commanding operations;Leadership and leadership development;Towards a comprehensive paradigm.