Police Leadership: Rising to the Top

In this era of ever more complex policing issues and the changing nature of policing itself, senior police officers face a never-ending challenge to keep up not only with the latest reforms, but also with the latest research.

Police Leadership: Rising to the Top?looks at policing from the dual perspectives of academics and senior police practitioners, and creates a conversation between them about the issues, reforms, and research. It provides authoritative surveys of fields such as leadership, community engagement, change management, utilising policing research, and multi-agency working. Each leadership issue is allocated a chapter, with academic contributors presenting key ideas and concepts in their area of expertise, identifying leading contributions and research studies, and offering concise reviews of some of the most important literature in policing scholarship. This academic knowledge is juxtaposed with the views of senior police practitioners, who provide their own local knowledge and stories, reflecting on their achievements and challenges in leadership roles. Taken together, these discussions build bridges between the two worlds by encouraging 'shared reflections' that consider the importance of theory and practice for future leaders.

Key Features:

• The only book to present a tailored discussion around strategic and extensive police leadership issues
• Provides authoritative surveys of fields such as leadership, community engagement, change management, utilising policing research, and multi-agency working
• Juxtaposes academic knowledge with the views of senior police practitioners
• Considers the importance of theory and practice for future leaders by encouraging shared observations between contributors

1:Experience and Evidence: The Learning of Leadership, Jenny Fleming
2:Leading in Austerity, Timothy Brain and Lynne Owens
3:Politics and Policing: The Terrible Twins, Robert Reiner and Denis O’Connor
4:Working in Partnership: The Challenges of Working across Organizational Boundaries, Cultures, and Practices, Adam Crawford and Mike Cunningham
5:Leadership, Management, and Command in the Police, Keith Grint and Sara Thornton
6:Principled and Ethical Policing: Some Considerations for Police Leaders, Allyson MacVean and Peter Spindler
7:'Say it Loud Without a Frown; Good Investigators Write it Down': Theories of Leading Ethical Investigations, John GD Grieve and Robin Bhairam
8:When Should They Get Engaged? Police-Community Engagement, Martin Innes, Sarah Tucker, and Matt Jukes
9:Police Leadership in Fractured Societies, Aogán Mulcahy and Hugh Orde
10:Women in Police Leadership, Marisa Silvestri and Colette Paul
11:Contested Knowledge: Learning to Lead in a Policing Context, Mark Kilgallon, Martin Wright, and Adrian Lee
12:Making Connections between Research and Practice: Tackling the Paradox of Policing Research, Jenny Fleming, Nick Fyfe, and Alex Marshall
13:Change Leadership: The Application of Alternative Models in Structural Policing Changes, Nic Beech, Elizabeth Gulledge, and David Stewart