Britain: metropolitan policing agendas in Britain: divergent tendencies in a fragmenting state?

Edwards, Adam; Chambers, Sophie; Fyfe, Nick; Henry, Alistair

Abstract

This chapter draws on case study research into governing arrangements and agendas in Bristol, Cardiff, London and Edinburgh to question assumptions about the interplay of global and local social relations, elsewhere referred to as 'glocalisation', in driving metropolitan policing agendas in Britain. It reviews the outcome of the UK referendum on membership of the EU, in favour of leaving. The chapter uses the cases of metropolitan policing agendas in Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London to question how the differential insertion of city-regions into this world system might generate divergent trajectories for policing, for example the particular policing problems that capitals, as contrasted with regional cities, encounter as the focal points for national and international protest as well as mundane problems of crime and civil unrest. The chapter focuses on the comparison of metropolitan policing in Britain.

Citation

EDWARDS, A., CHAMBERS, S., FYFE, N. and HENRY, A. 2017. Britain: metropolitan policing agendas in Britain: divergent tendencies in a fragmenting state? In Devroe, E., Edwards, A. and Ponsaers, P. (eds.). Policing European metropolises: the politics of security in city-regions. Abingdon: Routledge [online], pages 201-228. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668130-9

• Online Publication Date: Feb 3, 2017
• Publication Date: Feb 14, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jan 27, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 27, 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 201-228
• Series Title: Routledge studies in crime, security and justice
• Book Title: Policing European metropolises: the politics of security in city-regions
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 9781138951556; 9780367226534
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668130-9
• Keywords: Policing; Metropolis; UK; State sovereignty; Fragmentation; Comparative research; Police Scotland; Police and crime commissioners; Policy; Power
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1017372