![Sample our Humanities journals, sign in here to start your FREE access for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5939/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Humanities.jpg"})
Abstract
This paper charts the history and emergence of the ‘senior police voice’ within the UK. Before the 1990s, that voice was fragmented, hostile and contradictory. Cultural and political change plus a desire from within the senior echelons of the police service to professionalise began a long process of acceptance of the centrality of politics and the media within policing. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO, representing the senior ranks of the police service) in particular moved from the relative safety and anonymity of a ‘private’ organisation to a body, which was much more centre stage within criminal justice policy making. This paper analyses the development of a more corporate senior police voice through the Association's media activity and cultural change. It does this through an analysis of interviews with the members of ACPO, in particular its Presidents, who served as ACPO members from the late 1950s onwards.
Notes
Sarah Charman is a Principal Lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth where she has worked since 1994. She has published numerous articles on the role of pressure groups in criminal justice policy making, the role of the Association of Chief Police Officers and the politics of criminal justice policy. Sarah is co-author of Policing and the Power of Persuasion (Blackstone, 2000).
[1] Mawby, Policing, Communication and Legitimacy; Leishman and Mason, Policing and the Media; Mawby, ‘Police Corporate Communications’, 124–139.
[2] Reiner, ‘The Dialetics of Dixon’, 11–32; Allen, Livingstone, and Reiner, ‘Changing Images of Crime in Postwar Cinema’, 53–75.
[3] Wall, The Chief Constables of England and Wales.
[4] Johnson, ‘The Story of ACPO’, 193.
[5] Emsley, The English Police, 95.
[6] Smith, 1910, quoted in Wall, The Chief Constables of England and Wales.
[7] Wall, The Chief Constables of England and Wales.
[8] Wall, The Chief Constables of England and Wales
[9] Johnson, ‘The Story of ACPO’.
[10] Johnson, ‘The Story of ACPO’
[11] Home Office, Inquiry into Police Responsibilities and Rewards.
[12] Savage, Charman, and Cope, Policing and the Power of Persuasion.
[13] Savage, Charman, and Cope, Policing and the Power of Persuasion
[14] Downes and Morgan, ‘The Politics of Law and Order in Post-War Britain’, 87–134; Reiner, The Politics of the Police; McLeay, ‘Defining Policing Policies’, 620–37.
[15] Tumber, Television and the Riots, 19.
[16] Mawby, Policing, Communication and Legitimacy, 82.
[17] Chibnall, Law and Order News.
[18] Reiner, ‘The Dialetics of Dixon’, 11.
[19] Whitaker, 1932, cited in Schlesinger and Tumber, Reporting Crime, 114.
[20] Mark, Policing a Perplexed Society.
[21] Mawby, Policing, Communication and Legitimacy.
[22] Emsley, The English Police; Reiner, The Politics of the Police; Savage, Police Reform.
[23] Mawby, Policing, Communication and Legitimacy.
[24] Savage, Charman, and Cope, Policing and the Power of Persuasion.
[25] Alderson, Policing Freedom.
[26] Schlesinger and Tumber, Reporting Crime.
[27] Wolff Olins, A Force for Change.
[28] Chibnall, Law and Order News; Waters, ‘Quality and Performance Monitoring’, 264–87.
[29] Mawby, Policing, Communication and Legitimacy.
[30] Joint Consultative Committee, Operational Policing Review.
[31] Waters, ‘Quality and Performance Monitoring’, 264–87.
[32] Waters, ‘Quality and Performance Monitoring’; Waters, ‘Politics or Paradigm Shift?’.
[33] Leishman, Cope, and Starie, ‘Towards a New Policing Order’, 9–25.
[34] Boyle, ‘Spotlighting the Police’, 229–50.
[35] Waters, ‘Quality and Performance Monitoring’.
[36] Schlesinger and Tumber, Reporting Crime, 16.
[37] Savage, Charman, and Cope, Policing and the Power of Persuasion.
[38] Loader and Mulcahy, ‘Making Sense of the Elite Police Voice’, 252–65.
[39] Mark, Policing a Perplexed Society.
[40] Reiner, The Politics of the Police, 71.
[41] Mark, In the Office of Constable.
[42] Mark, Policing a Perplexed Society, 50.
[43] Mark, In the Office of Constable, 134.
[44] Schlesinger and Tumber, Reporting Crime.
[45] Crandon, ‘A Police Press Office’, 242–55.
[46] Mawby, Policing, Communication and Legitimacy.
[47] Davies, Flat Earth News.
[48] Mark, In the Office of Constable.
[49] Loader and Mulcahy, ‘The Power of Legitimate Naming’, 41–55.
[50] Mark, In the Office of Constable, 148.
[51] Mark, In the Office of Constable, 151.
[52] Loader and Mulcahy, ‘The Power of Legitimate Naming’.
[53] Thompson, Writing by Candlelight.
[54] McLaughlin and Murji, ‘Resistance through Representation’, 367–99.
[55] Mark, In the Office of Constable, 161.
[56] McNee, McNee's Law.
[57] Mawby, Policing, Communication and Legitimacy.
[58] Reiner, The Politics of the Police.
[59] Alderson, Policing Freedom, 127.
[60] Prince, God's Cop, 55.
[61] Prince,God's Cop
[62] Prince,God's Cop, 75.
[63] Prince,God's Cop, 202.
[64] Loader and Mulcahy, ‘The Power of Legitimate Naming’, 48.
[65] Prince, God's Cop, 56.
[66] McNee, McNee's Law, 231, 235.
[67] Reiner, Chief Constables.
[68] Reiner, Chief Constables, 217.
[69] Loader and Mulcahy, ‘The Power of Legitimate Naming’.
[70] Beer, Modern British Politics, 39.
[71] Yates, 1982 quoted in Jordan and Richardson, British Politics and the Policy Process, 189.
[72] Savage, Charman, and Cope, Policing and the Power of Persuasion.
[73] Callaghan, cited in Wilson, The A–Z of Campaigning in Britain, 17.
[74] Savage and Charman, ‘In Favour of Compliance’, 10–7.
[75] Charman, Savage, and Cope, ‘Singing From the Same Hymn Sheet’, 6–16.
[76] ACPO, A Clearer Voice for ACPO.
[77] ACPO, A Clearer Voice for ACPO, 1.
[78] ACPO, A Service to Value.
[79] ACPO, In Search of Criminal Justice.
[80] ACPO, In Search of Criminal Justice
[81] ACPO, Three Years On.
[82] Terkildsen, Schnell, and Ling, ‘An Analysis of Message Structure, Rhetoric, and Source Cues’, 45–61.
[83] Savage, Charman, and Cope, Policing and the Power of Persuasion.
[84] Loader and Mulcahy, ‘The Power of Legitimate Naming’, 51.
[85] Savage, Charman, and Cope, Policing and the Power of Persuasion.
[86] Wells, ACPO Media Advisory Group.
[87] Grant, Pressure Groups.