POLS 3300 Chapter 5: Readings/Articles for Week 5
9 Aug 2016
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The overview: four models of police-government relationships by kent. Murky to many even though it is a matter of considerable civic and constitutional significance. Police have a unique role to play in our democratic system. on the one hand, their criminal investigations must be absolutely free of political influences. Yet on the other, they must not become the law unto themselves . Week 5: the most famous articulation of the idea of police independence was made in 1968 by lord. I have no hesitation in holding that, like every constable in the land, [the. Commissioner of the london police] should be, and is, independent of the executive. He is not subject to the orders of the secretary of state, save that under the police. Act, 1964, the secretary of state can call upon him to give a report, or to retire in the interests of efficiency. I hold it to be the duty of the commissioner of police of the.
