Recent Book: A Number of Police Officers Were Injured …: Grunwick
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7805100211 |
| Published date | 01 April 1978 |
| Date | 01 April 1978 |
| Author | Aedilis |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
part of the Armoury of all professional
officers, especially budding Detectives
and scenes of Crime officers.
For
the
disinterested and those who feel there
is little need to equip oneself with the
proper tools, I quote from the intro-
duction:
"Police officers must consider the
possibility that lawsuits may result
from any of their endeavours.
Therefore, each officer must make
use of all the knowledge and ex-
perience available to him so
that
he
will be a formidible enemy of crime.
Officers who fail to do this are easily
outsmarted by modern felons who
in turn become even more contemp-
tuous of the law enforcement
community. This sort of atmosphere
is unhealthy for society and will
result in sharp crime increases".
Ninety five per cent of this most
interesting and practical
book
is
applicable to the day to day work of
Police officers the world over. Many
specialist books tend to be long
winded, over padded and too technical
- this is written for the layman in
plain English or should I say American?
It
is pleasurable to read, with well
defined printing, backed by ample
photographs, diagrams and illustra-
tions.
The contents cover the whole range
of murder, its attendant investigation
and the Incident Room organizations
and administration. There is also a
fascinating insight into the Polygraph
(lie detector) procedures.
Whilst there are many things from
that
great Country to be admired,
perhaps desired and even envied, the
preamble to Chapter 9 -
"Murder
Weapons" does not fall into this
category.
"The
frontier tradition lingers on in
the United States, and many
Americans own and carry guns. The
readily availability of firearms leads
to a very high rate of homicides,
suicides, and shooting accidents.
Few other countries can match us in
this respect".
How such an advanced, progressive
and intelligent nation can tolerate the
awful situation of the uncontrollable
sale and possession of firearms under
the guise of Tradition, I will never
understand. X.D.
ANUMBER
OF
POLICE
OFFICERS
WERE
INJURED
...
JOE
ROOALY:
Grunwick. Penguin Special. 80p.
Two books on this infamous episode to form their own opinions on the
of our industrial history appeared evidence he accurately reports. His
contemporaneously. Whilst I have read will, I am sure, become accepted as
both, I find myself fortunate in only the substantive account and he is to
being requested by our distinguished be congratulated on producing it so
editor to review one - by far the quickly and accurately. So many of
better (and cheaper!). this type of book have only one aim
Mr. Rogaly's version is an example in mind - to attack some aspect of
of the best of reporting.
It
does not our Society.
apportion blame but allows its readers
AEDILIS
THE
MILITARY
MODEL
J. C. T.
DOWNEY
(with contributions by J. H. F. Eberle, M. C. Lanyon and
D. C. Robinson): Management in the Armed Forces.
An Anatomy of the Military Profession. McGraw-Hili. £5.50.
The long connexion of the armed century organization and manage-
forces and the police must surely ment". Society owes more
than
is
guarantee police interest inthis account generally realized to military inventive-
of the organization of our system of ness. This cool and objective descrip-
military defence. Air Vice Marshal tion of the armed forces and the
Downey has had the collaboration of principles of their governance may
Vice Admiral Eberle, Brigadier Lanyon help us also to further our under-
and
Group
Captain Robinson in standing of the police institution.
presentingacomprehensiveand critical The book is happily free from jargon
exposition. and is addressed to the general reader,
The military model has deeply in- who will probably be surprised by
fluenced police systems in the United much
that
the authors have to say
Kingdom and the United States; as
about
the evolution of the military
John
Downey rightly remarks,
"The
system and its present posture in the
military largely invented nineteenth nuclear age. They examine
"the
mili-
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