Osman v Metropolitan Police Commissioner: The Cost of Police Protectionism

The Metropolitan Police Act of 1829

Face Recognition by Metropolitan Police Super-Recognisers

Face recognition is used to prove identity across a wide variety of settings. Despite this, research consistently shows that people are typically rather poor at matching faces to photos. Some professional groups, such as police and passport officers, have been shown to perform just as poorly as the general public on standard tests of face recognition. However, face recognition skills are subjec...

Risk to Metropolitan police officers from exposure to hepatitis B.

Comment The increased bacterial adherence to epithelial cells found in children with vitamin A deficiency provides evidence for an additional factor that can contribute to the increased risk of infection in this disease. Nutritional deficiencies impair several host defence mechanisms, but much of the work done in the past 20 years focused on immune responses rather than physical barriers. ' Thi...

Medical police. Politics and police: the fate of John Roberton.

IT is difficult to imagine a case more deserving of detailed historical analysis than that of John Roberton (1776-1840), a surgeon who practised as a specialist in the treatment of venereal disease in two European capitals' yet is linked to a subject, medical police, which, on close examination, occupied a fraction of his known professional life. Despite his widely published popular works on ve...

Public Perceptions of the Police: Effects of Police Investigation and Police Resources

Since the 1980s, successive UK governments have sought to increase efficiency in, and effectiveness of, policing through what has been described as “cycles of reform” (Reiner, 2000, p. 204). The reforms typically involved exerting greater central control over regional police forces. Many of the early initiatives met with resistance from within the police and, as a result, were not fully impleme...