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The most convenient point of reference for a discussion of the accountability of the police service is the 1962 Final Report of the Royal Commission on the Police,1 which examined the constitutional position of the police in some detail and finally set a definition to a legally ill-defined office which had given rise to some heated arguments before 1962 and which has continued to be discussed in great detail in the 1980s.
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Cmnd 1728, sometimes referred to as ‘The Willinck Report’ after the name of the chairman, Sir Henry Willinck. It is not intended to provide a detailed police history in this book, but full details may be found by reference to W. Holdsworth, A History of English Law, Volume 1 (Methuen, 1903);
T. A. Critchley, A History of Police in England and Wales, revised edition (Constable, 1978);
C. Reith, A New Study of Police History (Oliver & Boyd, 1956).
For a detailed discussion on this point see Geoffrey Marshall, Police and Government (Methuen, 1965), p. 46 et seq, and Critchley, A History of Police in England and Wales, p. 268.
But see now Cmnd 9074, a White Paper by Home Office Law Officers Department entitled An Independent Prosecution Service for England and Wales, presented to Parliament in October 1983; the Conservative Manifesto 1983, p. 34, and The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.
see also Oliver, The Metropolitan Police Approach to the Prosecution of Juvenile Offenders, Chapter 1 (Peel Press, 1978).
See Royal Commission Report, pp. 26 and 27; also Marshall, Police and Government, Chapter 4, and B. Keith-Lucas and D. N. Chester, ‘The Independence of Chief Constables’, Public Administration, 1960, p. 1.
See also Richard Clayton and Hugh Tomlinson, ‘Can Police Authorities Give Orders to Chief Constables?’, New Law Journal 12 October 1984.
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Oliver, I. (1987). The Royal Commission on the Police 1962. In: Police, Government and Accountability. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18557-3_2
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