What Matters in Policing?: Change, Values and Leadership in Turbulent Times

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Studies of policing tend to focus on effectiveness-on what works-rather than what matters, of why policing should be done in particular ways or reformed or restructured. This book explores that angle, looking at the implications of recent restructurings in the UK, USA and the Netherlands, with a special emphasis on the dilemmas faced by police leadership as they confront change.

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

"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