Table Of ContentPolice Leadership
Changing Landscapes
Edited by
Pauline Ramshaw
Marisa Silvestri
Mark Simpson
Police Leadership
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Pauline Ramshaw • Marisa Silvestri
Mark Simpson
Editors
Police Leadership
Changing Landscapes
Editors
Pauline Ramshaw Marisa Silvestri
Department of Criminology School of Social Policy, Sociology and
Northumbria University Social Research
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK University of Kent
Canterbury, UK
Mark Simpson
Teesside University
Middlesbrough, UK
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Contents
Part I Thinking Critically About Police Leadership 1
1 Ethical Leadership in Policing: Towards a New Evidence-
Based, Ethical Professionalism? 3
Peter Neyroud
2 Police Culture and Police Leadership 23
Tom Cockcroft
3 The Art of ‘Flexing’: Translating a New Vision of Police
Leadership from the Top 47
Pauline Ramshaw and Mark Simpson
4 Police Leadership and the Authority of Rank: A Call for a
Critical Perspective 71
Claire Davis
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Part II The Changing Face of Police Leadership: New
Directions 97
5 In Search of Diversity: An Embodied Account of Police
Leadership 99
Marisa Silvestri
6 Leadership, Volunteering and the Special Constabulary 121
Pauline Ramshaw
7 Changes to Police Leadership: The Legitimisation and the
Challenges of Direct Entry 145
Samantha Scott and Emma Williams
Part III Looking Beyond England and Wales 171
8 Contested Spaces: The Politics of Strategic Police
Leadership in Scotland 173
Kath Murray and Ali Malik
9 Leading in Liminal Space: The Challenge of Policing in
Northern Ireland 193
Joanne Murphy
10 Between Traditionalism and Modernisation: Can Reform
in the Hellenic Police Be Led from Within? 209
Georgios Papanicolaou
11 Police Leadership in the United States 231
Joseph Schafer
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12 Connected Policing: The Importance of Social Capital
and Boundary Spanning in Australian Police Leadership 255
Victoria Herrington, Deborah Blackman, Jacinta Carroll, and
Christine Owen
13 Postscript: Former Chief Constable Sara Thornton 277
Dame Sara Thornton
Index 283
Notes on Contributors
Deborah Blackman is a member of the Public Service Research Group
in the School of Business at University of New South Wales (UNSW),
Canberra, Australia. Her research interests include public sector policy
implementation, systems level change, employee performance manage-
ment, and organisational effectiveness. Blackman researches knowledge
transfer in a range of applied, real-world contexts. Current research proj-
ects include understanding the impact of system complexity on effective
long-term crisis recovery, investigating the impact of middle manager
capability on the Australian public service, and how to create more effec-
tive performance management conversations.
Jacinta Carroll is Director National Security Policy at the National
Security College (NSC), Australian National University, Australia. She is
a member of NSC’s Futures Council and works across the NSC’s profes-
sional development, policy, and academic programmes. Previously,
Carroll was the inaugural Head of Australian Strategic Policy Institute
(ASPI)’s Counter Terrorism Policy Centre, a position she held since
August 2015. Carroll joined ASPI from the Australian Government
where she had held a variety of senior executive appointments and worked
in the Department of Defence and the Attorney-General’s Department.
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x Notes on Contributors
Tom Cockcroft is Reader in Criminology at Leeds School of Social
Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. His research and publication
interests are in the broad area of police occupational culture and he is the
author of Police Culture: Themes and Concepts (2013). He is visiting senior
research fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University, and has written
articles for Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice and Journal of Criminological
Research, Policy and Practice.
Claire Davis is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of
Criminology at the School of Criminology, University of Leicester,
Leicester, UK. Her PhD research examined police officers’ understand-
ings of leadership in the police. She has previously held academic posts at
Nottingham Trent University and Liverpool John Moores University, and
a research post at the Police Foundation. She is also an Associate Inspector
for Leadership with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire
& Rescue Services (HMICFRS) and part of the Executive Committee of
the British Society of Criminology.
Victoria Herrington leads the Australian Institute of Police Management
(AIPM)’s Knowledge Team, and is responsible for maintaining and devel-
oping the AIPM’s knowledge base, its academic architecture, suite of
knowledge activities, learner and learning experience, and overall teach-
ing quality. Herrington is also adjunct professor within the School of
Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University; is an
Australasian Editor for the journal Policing: A Journal of Policy and
Practice; an associate editor for the International Journal of Police Science
and Management; member of the International Editorial Board for the
Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism; and founding edi-
tor of the AIPM’s Public Safety Leadership: Research Focus publication.
Ali Malik was until recently an associate inspector at Her Majesty’s
Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland before joining Northumbria
University, Newcastle, UK, in September 2019 as Senior Lecturer in
Criminology. He completed his doctoral study at the University of
Edinburgh (2013–2017). The study entitled ‘Democracy and Epistocracy
Reconciled? The Scottish Police Authority and Police Governance in
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Scotland After 2012’ examined the new police governance arrangements
following reform and sits on the editorial board of Cogent Social Sciences.
Joanne Murphy is a senior lecturer at Queen’s Management School,
Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and the Director of the William J Clinton
Leadership Institute.
Kath Murray is a criminal justice researcher based at the School of Law,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research interests
include police powers and accountability and railway policing. In 2016
she was awarded the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and
SAGE Publishing Outstanding Early Career Impact award for her doc-
toral research on the rise of intensive stop and search in Scotland.
Peter Neyroud, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Queen’s Police Medal (QPM), is the Deputy Director of the Police
Executive Programme and Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing in the Jerry
Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology,
University of Cambridge, UK. His PhD focused on field experiments in
policing. He was a police officer for more than 30 years, serving in
Hampshire, West Mercia, Thames Valley (as Chief Constable) and the
National Policing Improvement Agency (as CEO). In 2010, he carried out
the ‘Review of Police Leadership and Training’ which led to the establish-
ment of the new ‘National College of Policing’, in 2012. He is the Co-Chair
of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Coordinating Group.
Christine Owen is an associate professor in the Tasmanian Institute of
Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia. Her career
history spans engagement in academia and industry to help people and
organisations engaged in safety-critical work to inquire into, learn from,
and, if needed, change their work practices. Owen has worked with
safety-critical organisations for over 25 years, including the aviation field,
emergency medicine, fire and emergency services, and policing with the
Australian Institute of Police Management.
Georgios Papanicolaou is Reader in Criminology in the Humanities
and Criminology Department at School of Social Science, Humanities
