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Mon 4 June 2018, 18:00 – 20:00 BST

UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL

How do we best motivate police officers and organizations to live up to the expectations placed upon them? What tools and methods, applied where and in relation to whom, will best secure policing that generates public trust and legitimacy, is responsive to democratically agreed norms and targets, and which seeks to apply power in morally acceptable ways?

These questions loom large in discussions of policing all over the world, and surface regularly in the UK. The range of relevant issues is vast, including: recruitment; training; on-the-job socialization; the ways in which good performance construed (and measured); the outcomes are police tasked with delivering; how targets are agreed, set and tracked; and the extent to which management regimes affect performance.

In this seminar scholars from three different countries, the United States, Australia and France, address three different aspects of the same, overarching, question: how do we get policing ‘right’.

Watching the watchmen: How do the police view their monopoly of violence over the protected and served? - Arthur Rizer

Procedural justice in policing: Can we create a procedurally just police officer? - Kristina Murphy

Detectives in the managerial iron cage? Neo-managerial reforms and professionalism in British and French police investigation units - Jacques de Maillard