Who do you think you are? A question of policing culture and professional identity

12th April 2022Dr Jonathan Smith, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Exeter University

The recent controversies around ‘shameful’ behaviour and policing failings in the Metropolitan Police Service have prompted a wider debate about policing culture and identity across UK forces; in this article Professor Simon Robinson and Dr Jonathan Smith argue the need for policing to establish a clearer professional identity, with the lead taken nationally rather than left to be addressed by individual forces.

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