As against views recently put forward by Dr Corns, the article argues that inter-disciplinary difficulties between police and lawyers in the National Crime Authority have been largely due to personal differences rather than the ‘competing ideologies’; of the two groups; that the results achieved by the authority and like organisations which have lawyerAed teams do not support claims of ‘structural’ or ‘inherent’ tension between ‘competing ideologies’: and that, despite assertions to the contrary, most police find working at the authority a professionally rewarding experience.
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