Policing, Ethics and Human Rights

Peter Neyroud is Deputy Chief Constable, West Mercia Constabulary, Vice-chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers' human rights committee, and a Council Member of 'Justice'.Alan Beckley is Head of Management Development Training in West Mercia Constabulary, has written extensively on policing issues, and is Editor of the journal Police Research and Management.

• Foreword, by the Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, M.P lntroduction Part 1 1. Ethics in context: policing and its environment in the 21st century 2. The purposes of policing: past, present and future 3. From ethics to principles and practice 4. From ethics to rights Part 2 5. Personal ethics 6. Police performance management - an ethical dilemma? 7. Operational ethics 8. Organisational ethics Part 3 9. Human resource solutions 10. Decision making, codes and control systems 11. 'Auditing' for compliance: a human rights case study 12. Towards ethical policing