Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Part I Colonial Policing (to 1945): The armed police and colonial rule in South India, 1914-1947, David Arnold; An Act to Colonise the Internal Lands of the Island: empire and the origins of the professional police, Michael Brogden; A glance at police duties in the Empire, Sir John Cumming; The Ceylon Police and its development, H.L. Dowbiggin; From Dowbiggin to Tegart: revolutionary change in the colonial police in Palestine during the 1930s, Gad Krozier; The 'Irish model' and nineteenth-century Canadian policing, Greg Marquis. Part II Colonial Policing (1945-1980): Policing and communal conflict: the Cyprus emergency, 1954-60, David M. Anderson; Colonial policing and the demise of British rule in Hong Kong, Mark S. Gaylord and Harold Traver; The maintenance of law and order in British colonial Africa, David Killingray; Colonial policing in Aden, 1937-1967, John Willis. Part III Policing Northern Ireland (From the RUC to the PSNI): A blueprint for democratic policing anywhere in the world? Police reform, political transition, and conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, Graham Ellison; Policing Northern Ireland: current issues, Andrew Hamilton; Visions of normality: peace and the reconstruction of policing in Northern Ireland, Aogán Mulcahy; Community policing and the reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Jim Smyth. Part IV Exporting British Colonial Policing: From Empire to Iraq and the 'war on terror': the transplantation and commodification of the (Northern) Irish policing experience, Graham Ellison and Conor O'Reilly; From Empire to Europe: evolving British policy in respect of cross-border crime, Clive Harfield; Building a global police studies community, Otwin Marenin; 'Home and away': the cross-fertilisation between 'colonial' and 'British' policing, 1921-85, Georgina Sinclair and Chris A. Williams; Name index.

About the Author

Georgina Sinclair is a Research Associate in the Department of History at The Open University, UK David Arnold, Michael Brogden, Sir John Cumming, H.L. Dowbiggin, Gad Krozier, Greg Marquis, David M. Anderson, Mark S. Gaylord, Harold Traver, David Killingray, John Willis, Graham Ellison, Andrew Hamilton, Aogan Mulcahy, Jim Smyth, Conor O'Reilly, Clive Harfield, Otwin Marenin, Georgina Sinclair, Chris A. Williams.