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Policing Advance Access originally published online on August 2, 2007
Policing 2007 1(2):184-186; doi:10.1093/police/pam021
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

Opinion

Frontline Voice: P.A.J. Waddington Interviews Chief Inspector Oliver Wright

P.A.J. Waddington*

* Professor of Social Policy, University of Wolverhampton. E-mail: P.A.J.Waddington@wlv.ac.ik

In the first of a series of interviews, Professor P.A.J. Waddington interviews Chief Inspector Wright, Neighbourhood Policing Project Manager in Thames Valley Police UK, on the challenges ahead for neighbourhood policing.

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Chief Inspector Oliver Wright is the Neighbourhood Policing Project Manager in Britain's Thames Valley Police, policing the counties of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire that lie in the centre of the country to the north-west of London. Chief Inspector Wright is responsible for ensuring the smooth introduction of neighbourhood policing, about which he is enthusiastic but also realistic about the challenges that he and his colleagues will have to face. It is ‘work in progress’; indeed, it has barely begun, for the project commenced in 2005.

What is ‘neighbourhood policing’? I put it to him that it was just the latest incarnation of the ‘community policing’ idea. Whilst accepting that it embraces much of the same ethos as ‘community policing’ he insisted that it represented a distinctive advance. Central to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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