THE FUTURE OF POLICE AUTHORITIES: MEMBERS VIEWS |
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| Authors: | ROD MORGAN PAUL SWIFT |
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| Affiliation: | Rod Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, and Paul Swift is Research Officer, in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath. |
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| Abstract: | Part of the argument about police accountability concerns the role of police authorities, their membership and powers. The Conservative, Alliance and Labour Parties have developed policies which are broadly retentionist – leave things as they are – reformist – change the membership – and radical – empower police authorities to determine policy. The evidence suggests that police authority members' views, though broadly consistent with their party policies nationally, differ in some important respects. Conservatives are increasingly unhappy about the statutory co-option of magistrates. Alliance members appear not to favour an increase in the proportion of nonelected members. And many Labour councillors entertain doubts about the control model. |
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