Introduction to Police Work

Colin Rogers is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan. Prior to this, he was a Police Inspector with South Wales Police for 30 years. His areas of expertise include community safety partnerships, situational crime prevention, problem oriented partnerships and also police governance and accountability.Rhobert Lewis is Associate Dean of the Department of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan. His particular areas of expertise are police training, and forensic and police sciences.

• 1 Introduction 2 Important issues in cancer screening 3 Does screening work in Sweden? 4 Stonewalling the Cochrane report on screening 5 Troubling results in the Lancet 6 Harms dismissed by the Cochrane Breast Cancer Group 7 The Lancet publishes the harms of screening 8 Delayed media storm in the United States after our 2001 reviews 9 The Danish National Board of Health circles the wagons 11 Scientific debates in the United States 12 Publication of entire Cochrane review obstructed for 5 years 13 Editorial misconduct in the European Journal of Cancer 14 Tabár’s ‘beyond reason’ studies 15 Other observational studies of breast cancer mortality 16 Overdiagnosis and overtreatment 17 Ad hominem attacks: a measure of desperation? 18 US recommendations for women aged 40–49 years 19 What have women been told? 20 Extraordinary exaggerations 21 Tabár threatens the BMJ with litigation 22 Falsehoods and perceived censorship in Sweden 23 Celebrating 20 years of breast screening in the United Kingdom 24 Can screening work? 25 Where is screening at today? 26 Where next?

"'Written by practitioners for practitioners, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the work of policing and will provide a useful insight for anyone, student, member of staff or citizen, seeking to understand our profession.' - Peter Neyroud QPM (Chief Constable and Chief Executive, National Policing Improvement Agency) 'I am delighted to provide the foreword for this excellent publication. Just a quick glance at the contents will show that it covers everything from the initial training of a probationer through to countering the modern terrorist threat. Every page is relevant, not just to those wanting to join the police service, but also to those who need to know and understand how it works, what issues it must address and what the future may hold'. - Dick Winterton (Chief Executive, Skills for Justice)"