Police and Crime Commissioners: The Transformation of Police Accountability
Bryn Caless and Jane Owens
Abstract
Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are elected representatives whose role is to bring a public voice to policing and hold the police to account; the holders of this controversial role also control police budgets and strategic planning. Bryn Caless and Jane Owens obtained unprecedented access to the PCCs and their chief police officer teams and undertook confidential interviews with both sides. The results reveal the innermost workings of the PCCs’ relationships with the police, media, partners and public. The authors analyse the election process (in which PCCs polled the lowest local mandat ... More
Keywords: police, crime, commissioners, accountability, pcc
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447320692 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2017 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447320692.001.0001 |
