Police Services

Paresh Wankhade is the Professor of Leadership and Management at Edge Hill University Business School. A former civil servant specialising in indirect taxation, he is a founder Editor of International Journal of Emergency Services (an Emerald group Publication) and is recognised as an expert in the field of emergency management. His research and publications focus on analyses of strategic leadership, organisational culture, organisational change and interoperability within the public services with a special focus on emergency services. His publications have contributed to inform debates around interoperability of public services and challenges faced by individual organisations. Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom  David Weir is Visiting Professor at Edgehill University, and has held Chairs at several Universities including Glasgow, Bradford, Liverpool Hope, UCS and SKEMA in France. He has worked with several police forces and has published extensively on risk management and undertook a major study with the Police Federation on the work of police sergeants in the UK. He has supervised more than sixty PhD theses on aspects of management and has written several books and many journal articles.Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom

"This is an ambitious work and one which stands out by successfully bringing together different and influential academic, professional and practitioner perspectives. ... this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature and is distinguished in several key respects, not least in terms of successfully bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences as well as engaging with persistent themes as well as those traditionally less well explored." (Geoff Coliandris, The Police Journal, Vol. 88 (4), 2015)

• Introduction: Understanding the Management of Police Services.- Historical Perspective: British Policing and the Democratic Ideal.- Part 2- Context of Policing.- Quo Vadis: A New Direction for Police Leadership through Community Engagement?.- Initial police training and the development of police occupational culture.- Community Engagement, Democracy and Public Policy: a Practitioner Perspective.- Dealing with Diversity in Police Services.- Risk Management in Policing.- Perspectives on the Essence of Policing.- Part 3- Current debates in Policing.- Enhancing Police Accountability in England and Wales: What differences are Police and Crime Commissioners making?.- Police management and workforce reform in a period of austerity.- Personal Resilience and Policing.- Part 4- Looking to the Future.- Some Futures for the Police: Scenarios and Science.- The Future of Policing in the United Kingdom.- A Crisis or a Perfect Storm: the trouble with Public Policing?.-International Perspectives inPolicing: Challenges for 2020.-International perspectives in policing: Challenges for 2020.