NCJ Number
173978
Date Published
1995
Length
544 pages
Annotation
This volume examines the New Zealand police force as it developed from the turbulence of the frontier years to the relative tranquility of the later 19th century.
Abstract
The book describes development of modernizing organizational, forensic and detection techniques, and the dilemmas of policing in a period of increasing state encroachment upon citizens' thoughts and deeds. In the period covered, policing came under intense official and public scrutiny which led to commissions of enquiry, which, in turn, gave rise to a reformed police force whose basic methods and organization lasted for decades. The book is divided into five parts: (1) Problematic Policing in the Stabilized Society, 1886-1897; (2) Trauma and Reform: Tunbridge's Commissionership, 1897-1903; (3) The Pursuit of "Professionalisation", 1903-1912; (4) Industrial Unionism, Police Unionism, 1912-1913; and (5) Challenges and Continuities, 1913-1917. Figures, references, notes, bibliography, index