Public Order
| Author | Jonathan F. Brown |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7204500413 |
| Published date | 01 October 1972 |
| Date | 01 October 1972 |
reduce considerably large-scale thefts and assist inthe investiga-
tion of those whichdo take place.
The operation of a nationwide metal squad would obviously
necessitate a greatdealof preliminary work, such as compiling
registers of metal manufacturers, metal dealersand itinerants,
also asystem of recording stolen metalin detail,andplanning
for the dissemination of this information as andwhen required.
Nevertheless, in due course, theman-hours of a squad speci-
alizing in metal would certainly be muchless than the man-
hours spent at present bypolice officers whooften donothave
either sufficient information to make inquiriesin connexion with
metal thefts from other areas, or enoughtime to investigate cases
in their own.
The overriding advantage of such a squad would be inthe
financial saving resultingfrom a decrease inthe incidence ofmetal
thefts.
JONATHAN
F.
BROWN
Mr. Brown is StaffTutorin Politics, Department of
Adult
Education, University ofNewcastle-upon-Tyne. Prior tohis
present appointment he was a member of the academic staffof
the Police College, Bramshill.
PUBLIC ORDER
Though coherent, considered views of the OpenUniversity
and its work must inevitably be delayed for some years, the Uni-
versity has already produced much of interest.
It
has, for example,
produced video tapes
(TV.
programmes), tapes (radio pro-
grammes),scientific equipment (necessaryfor a science course
which demands home experimental work), books and correspond-
ence units published in book form.These maybe of interest
and use forstudents, teachers andthe general publicwho have
no contact with the universityandits courses.Of theseproducts
it maybe, ironicallyin view of thepoliticalimpetuswhich created
the Open University (remember Mr. Wilson's"University of the
Air"?), that the most important of thesecontributions is the com-
mission and production of the printed word.
The Open University correspondence volume on Public Order
was, of course, designedto link the multimedia package of
television, radioandsetbooks usedforits second level courseon
October
1972 330
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