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Sir Ian Blair, in his 2005 Dimbleby Lecture, asked three questions: What kind of police service do we want, who should decide and how? Policing he said, "is becoming a contestable political issue as never before" and yet there is no "thorough going, objective debate about policing as a whole". He went on to say that "the citizens of Britain now have to articulate what kind of police service they want".
The Police Foundation dedicated its first Oxford Policing Policy Forum to issue of what police service we want. Read more...
David Faulkner, John Graham and Ian Loader wrote about the beginnings of a national debate in Criminal Justice Matters (CJM) Magazine. Read the article
In 2006 the Power Inquiry found that despite high levels of interest in political issues, the general public thought they had no real influence over the decisions made in their name. To remedy this malaise, the Power Inquiry recommended that members of the public should have a more direct and focused influence on the political decisions that concern them.
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