Corruption and Crisis Control

Corruption is a major problem that has affected policeservices and the communities they serve around the world for manyyears. Much discussion has gone into how best to deal with thissituation and repeated attempts have been made to reform a policeculture that is regarded as secretive and corrupt. In thisimportant new book a former police officer with 23 years ofexperience reveals what external observers have failed to see, thereal nature of policing with its internal operational structuresthat help perpetuate this cycle of corruption in spite of demandsfor reform. But there is more to this cycle than police work andorganisational behaviour patterns. For public exposure in aninquiry and media reports sensationally describing corruptiongenerate a highly politicised reform response that keeps the cyclein motion. This book allows the voices of the forgotten casualtiesof an inquiry to be heard, those individuals who see policing as avocation that is an important part of the processes of a democraticsociety. It gives insight into the complex relationships involvedin the nature of the game, the source of moral dilemmas, personalbeliefs and personal behaviour.