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The Angered Versus the Endangered: PCCs, Roads Policing and the Challenges of Assessing and Representing ‘Public Opinion’

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Part of the rationale for introducing elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) was a suggestion that the police and public needed to be ‘reconnected’, with the public more readily able to shape the type of policing they wished to receive. Apparently underpinning this intention was a perception that a single public view about policing priorities could, and would, make itself apparent to PCCs. This paper considers how PCCs assess their public mandate by focusing on an often contested policing activity—roads policing. It considers why this particular issue is particularly likely to be understood by PCCs as a contested topic and, furthermore, how PCCs go about accessing and representing diverse views within this ‘consumer-led’ approach to the provision of policing.

Acceptance Date Sep 29, 2016
Publication Date Oct 17, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal British Journal of Criminology
Print ISSN 0007-0955
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 95-113
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw079
Keywords Police and Crime Commissioners, Chief Constables, roads policing, mandate, public, Community Speedwatch
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw079

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