Download or read book The Politics of Police Governance written by Ali Malik and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a unique contribution to the scholarship on democratic policing, this book adapts the concept of epistocracy to explore the role of knowledge and expertise in police governance and accountability. Analysing the Scottish police governance arrangements following reform in 2013, the book provides a framework for knowledge-based working practices, showing how the principles of democratic policing may be achieved in practice.