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This chapter outlines the elements of integrity system for police organisations. The elements in question included oversight bodies, internal affairs corruption investigations, professional reporting and integrity testing. I argue that the key moral notion informing integrity systems is that of collective moral responsibility and I provide an analysis of that notion.
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Note that from the fact that a principle is objectively correct it does not follow that it ought to be universally followed. See Chap. 1.
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There is a dispute as to whether policing ought to be regarded as a profession or a craft. I suggest that police are an emerging profession. At any rate at the very least they should be regarded as a quasi-profession to distinguish them from occupations that require little or no specialized training and knowledge. However, these controversies make no difference to the points I am making here since elsewhere I have defined policing according to this teleological conception and this conception does not depend on police being accorded the status of a profession.
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Nevertheless, and consistent with this claim, a police officer’s sexual activities, even if they do not involve other police, may become professionally problematic in so far as they bring the police service into disrepute.
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Miller, S. (2016). Integrity Systems for Police Organisations. In: Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Policing—Philosophical and Ethical Issues. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46991-1_4
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