Convenient constructs: How chief police officers in England and Wales understand the right to exercise power.

这项奖学金建立在一项研究的基础上，该研究使用半结构化访谈来收集数据，以回答这样一个问题：英格兰和威尔士的警察局长如何理解警察行使权力的权利？所有接受采访的首席官员都援引了保护公众(特别是最脆弱的人)的职责，通过同意和基于法律的解释以及相关的制衡来维持治安。然而，所做的重大学术贡献是发现，这些描述是混乱的、相互冲突的，最重要的是，它们有助于警察局长在决定使用权力时维护特权地位。在对脆弱性的模糊描述和对双方自愿维持治安的模糊概念中，混乱是显而易见的。人们发现，同意的言辞和强迫的做法之间存在冲突。首席警官声称，法律和相关的制衡机制对于确保警察权力得到正确使用至关重要，这与他们对审查过程的厌恶令人不安，他们感到岌岌可危。如果警察局长没有信心抵制对那些往往受到更多监管而不是保护的人不成比例地使用警权的要求，这将对公民的公民自由产生影响。它还表明警察局长和监督他们的人之间存在不健康的关系，冲突而不是建设性的对话很常见。研究金将被用来向学者、警察和警察政策制定者以及负责警察监督的人传播这项研究的结果，目的是为了公共利益改善警务。为此，将在这篇论文的基础上写一本书，并在领先的学术期刊《警务与社会》上发表一篇关于脆弱性概念对警察实践的影响的文章。将进行一些额外的研究(包括六次访谈)，以支持这篇文章，并支持本书中关于脆弱性的讨论。另一篇文章将写给《警务：政策与实践杂志》，这是一份以实践者为重点的领先学术期刊。后一篇文章将审查警察局长报告的他们所处的危险地位，并探讨这对公民自由的影响。这项研究还将在国际学术会议上传播和接受审查。这些出版物将通过举办关于警察合法性的研讨会、研讨会和研讨会来补充，并将得到以政策为重点的简短研究结果文件和博客的使用的支持。这些活动将把学者、警察和政策制定者聚集在一起，讨论这项研究对警务实践的影响。利用在警务生涯中建立起来的人脉和信誉，通过后来与警察监察局的工作以及在为博士进行研究时，将安排与女王陛下的警察总督察、警察学院首席执行官和国家警察局长委员会主席讨论研究的影响。研究金还将用于发展研究职业所需的技能和网络。为支持这项合作工作，将与其他学者一起探讨研究过程中涉及的方法论和伦理问题，特别是曾经是被研究小组成员的一名研究人员的立场。其他工作将涉及审议有关使用和滥用警察权力的国际研究。将充分利用通过利兹社会科学研究所、白玫瑰博士培训伙伴关系和N8警务研究伙伴关系为早期职业研究人员提供的发展机会，以提高我的研究和相关技能。

This Fellowship builds on research that used semi-structured interviews to gather data to answer the question, 'how do chief police officers in England and Wales understand the right of police to exercise power?' All the chief officers interviewed invoked duties to protect the public (particularly the most vulnerable), policing by consent and explanations based in law and associated checks and balances. However, the significant academic contribution made is the finding that these accounts are confused, conflicted and, above all, convenient in helping chief police officers assert a privileged position when making decisions about the use of power. Confusion was evident in vague accounts of vulnerability and hazy notions of consensual policing. Conflict was found between a rhetoric of consent and the practice of coercion. Chief officers' claims that law and associated checks and balances are important in ensuring police power is used properly sat uncomfortably with their distaste for the process of scrutiny and they felt precarious. If police chiefs lack the confidence to resist demands for the disproportionate use of police power against those who tend to be policed more than protected, this has implications for the civil liberties of citizens. It also indicates an unhealthy relationship between police chiefs and those overseeing them, with conflict rather than constructive conversations being common.The Fellowship will be used to disseminate the findings of this research to academics, police officers and police policy makers and to those responsible for police oversight, with the intention of improving policing in the public interest. This will be done by writing a book based on the thesis, and by publishing an article on the impact of the concept of vulnerability on police practice, in the leading academic journal 'Policing and Society'. Some additional research (including six interviews) will be conducted to underpin this article and to support the discussion of vulnerability covered in the book. A further article will be written for 'Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice', the leading practitioner-focused, academic journal. The latter article will examine the precarious position that police chief officers reported they are in and will explore the implications this has for civil liberties. The research will also be disseminated and exposed to scrutiny at international academic conferences.These publications will be supplemented by organising workshops, seminars and a symposium on police legitimacy and will be supported by a short policy focused research findings document and use of blogs. These activities will bring academics, police officers and policy makers together to discuss the implications of the research for policing practise. Using contacts and credibility developed during a policing career, latterly as a Deputy Chief Constable, and though subsequent work with the Inspectorate of Constabulary and when conducting research for the PhD, meetings will be arranged to discuss the implications of the research with Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, the Chief Executive Officer of the College of Policing, and the Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council.The Fellowship will also be used to develop the skills and networks that are required for a research career. To support this collaborative work will be undertaken with other academics to explore aspects of the methodology and ethical issues dealt with during the research, notably the position of a researcher who used to be member of the group being studied. Other work will involve consideration of international studies looking at the use and abuse of police power. Full use will be made of the development opportunities that are provided for early career researchers through the Leeds Social Sciences Institute, the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership and the N8 Policing Research Partnership, to improve my research and related skills.