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Back to basics: Reconnecting the police with communities

With British policing facing ongoing challenges around trust and confidence, as well as seemingly endless media scrutiny and criticism couple with frequent political attacks, the service is struggling to reconnect with the communities it is there to serve; David Marshall, a serving officer with more than 30 years’ experience who is also a part-time policing lecturer and PhD researcher, sets out the steps he believes policing needs to take to reset those connections and address the challenges.

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