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Editorial |
Policing Terrorism
* Chief Executive Officer for the National Police Improvement Agency
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We have chosen a difficult issue for this first edition of the Oxford Journal because, as General Editors, we have high ambitions to raise the level of debate about policing, and about the way in which practice is developed, debated and disseminated. Our philosophy as Editors is to encourage all three, but in a way that brings together practitioners, commentators and academics. The difference between this journal and the ‘trade press’ for policing is that we want to ensure that the debate is based on a strong debate, which is credibly reviewed. Policing has suffered from too much assertive writing that suggests solutions without supportive evidence. There has also been reluctance for practitioners to engage in the debate in the same publications as academics, leading to curiously split conversations.
Speaking in his Dimbleby lecture last year, Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, challenged the profession, the academic