Abstract
Chief Constable Sara Thornton and Executive Research Officer Lucy Mason at Thames Valley Police argue that local accountability for policing needs to be strengthened. Responding to the articles in the Neighbourhood Policing edition of Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, the authors explore the reasons why something needs to be done and use their experience to suggest ways to develop neighbourhood policing. The origin of professional police service in England and Wales was very much the development of local policing, administered through many small independent police forces. While the urban growth of London in the 19th century made a full-time police force necessary, there was originally much public opposition to what was perceived as an unacceptable extension of the power of the state: ‘The idea of a bureaucratic central force also offended against a tradition which held that social control should be private, local and a voluntary matter’ (Ignatieff,...
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