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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Metropolitan police"”.
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A metropolitan police station for the city of Manila
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1941
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Walking the talent tightrope : becoming a 'top cop' in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
Chief police officers represent a small cadre of individuals who have risen to occupy some of the most important and, arguably, testing roles within modern British public life, wielding a powerful influence over crime, security and safety in the UK. However, although there is now a significant body …
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THE METROPOLITAN POLICE AND THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY, 1919-1956: PROCESSES OF COLLABORATION AND CONTROL
Between 1919 and 1957, the Metropolitan Police embarked upon a series of films depicting its processes in an attempt to strengthen consent for its position within British society. These films were made collaboratively with British film studios and, in the case of the post-1945 films, the …
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An Analysis of Morale and Job Satisfaction of the Members of the Metropolitan Police, Thailand.
… organization theory has been less concerned with police agencies' greatest asset, their personnel.
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Organized Crime: An Ethnographic study of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organized criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police
… between these behaviours, as well as the way police culture informs the process of labelling organized criminals. This is by virtue of its adherence to anachronistic and outmoded models of organized criminal offending, resulting in an undue focus on certain offences and a failure to appreciate …
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Young offenders and the Criminal Justice System: a systems science approach to evaluating and improving Metropolitan Police Service policy toward young offenders
… science approach to evaluating and improving Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) policy toward young offenders from 1992 to 1999. The MPS were concerned at the cost effectiveness of their policy and procedures toward young offenders, and the role of other agencies in the decision-making process. …
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The life and death of Section 44 (Stop and Search) Terrorism Act 2000
… a delicate balancing act for the UK Government, Police and Police Authorities. This professional doctorate is about that balancing act and ultimately why the Government and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) got it so badly wrong. This professional doctorate makes a contribution to the body of …
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"Injustice on Their Backs and Justice on Their Minds": Political Activism and the Policing of London's Afro-Caribbean Community, 1945-1993
… teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 - that the Metropolitan Police was ‘institutionally racist’, was a seminal moment for policing in Britain. The publication of the Macpherson report in 1999 has been rightly regarded as a victory for the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign (SLFC), whose activities …
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Fear as a predictor of firearm ownership and concealed weapons permits in Clark County, Nevada
… weapons permits were obtained from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Firearms Detail and CCW Detail. Criminal incidents involving firearms in public areas that appeared to be random in nature [stranger to stranger violence] were gathered through an archive search of Nevada's largest …
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Policing Gangs in London : Perceptions of the Process from Key Practitioners
… and their associated risks are perceived and policed within the organisational structure of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews with a variety of gang practitioners, it contrasts and critiques specialist, analytical and local police …
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Police corruption and computer misuse: an analysis of the contributing factors
Recent high profile media coverage of a number of police corruption cases has understandably caused an increase in public concern at the possibility of widespread malpractice within forces. These concerns have been further heightened by the instigation of a number of public and judicial reviews of …
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Using the "Guide to safety at sports grounds" and the buildingEXODUS software
… of the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds to the Metropolitan Police Football Club at Imber Court, Surrey and compares and contrasts its results with those produced using the computer simulation evacuation model buildingEXODUS. The main objectives of the work are to address how the Guide applies …
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Same destination, different journey : a comparative study of public order policing in Britain and Spain
… order policing asks serious questions of the police and represents the most contentious policing activity in modern democratic states. The purpose of this study is to increase and improve current knowledge of public order policing by comparing the policing of disorder in Britain and Spain. It …
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Community perceptions on the effectiveness of body-worn cameras within law enforcement in South Africa: A case study of Soshanguve policing area.
… addresses the growing concern over whether police officers and community members find BWCs useful and easy to integrate into daily policing activities. The research problem explores whether negative perceptions of BWCs, coupled with challenges such as privacy concerns, lack of resources, and …
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The personality of the organisation : a psycho-dynamic explanation of culture and change.
… and then to an action research project in the Metropolitan Police Service. The psycho-dynamic model provides the necessary ability to examine the transference and counter-transference within the relationship between consultant and clients. The role of consultant is also viewed in regard to …
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The Role Of Story Telling In A Police Probationer Training Classroom
… is about the role played by story telling in a Metropolitan Police Probationer Classroom in South London in the early 1990s. The method used is one of discourse analysis of the type advocated by Potter and Wetherall, 1987):The form and function of themes, role-plays, case studies, anecdotes and …
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Employee Perceptions of Performance Appraisal Systems: Causal Determinants of Fairness, Accuracy, and Acceptability
… employees in a university setting, and police officers in a large metropolitan police department. Confirmatory factor analyses, which resulted in a six-factor solution that was successfully replicated on a hold-out sample, were used to demonstrate and improve construct validity.</p> …
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Predicting leadership and performance in uniformed organisations using the five factor model of personality
… findings using similar data gathered from the Metropolitan Police Service. Contextual factors were found to have great influence on relationships between personality assessment and criterion measures. A novel, robust, two factor leadership model was identified. The first factor represented …
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