This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power. Their b

"An important assessment of how chief police officers understand and use power and what this might mean for the maintenance of legitimacy. From an academic and

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard du

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