Managing Community and Race Relations: An Approach within Police Management Training

Scarman Lord (1981) The Brixton Disorders, London: HMSO; Police Training Council (1983) Community and Race Relations Training for the Police, Home Office; Oakley R , “Lay Involvement in CRR Training”, Community and Race Relations Newsletter, Specialist Support Unit, Turvey, Autumn 1997.

Oakley R. (1995) “Police Training on Community and Race Relations: The Role of the Specialist Support Unit”, The Police Journal, LXVI1I, No.1, January-March, pp.32–38.

Further information about course programmes in higher police training can be obtained from the Police Staff College, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire RG27 0JW.

Strategic Policy Document: Meeting Community Expectations, Association of Chief Police Officers, 1990.

Documented most recently in Winning the Race: Policing Plural Communities, Thematic Inspection Report on Police Community and Race Relations 1996/97, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, 1997.

Currently, extracts from: (a) Policing and Racial Equality: A Practical Guide to the ACPO Strategic Policy Document (ACPO/CRE); (b) The Point of Order: A Study of Consultative Arrangements (Commission for Racial Equality); (c) The Response to Racial Attacks & Harassment: Guidance for the Statutory Agencies (Racial Attacks Group); and (d) Community and Race Relations Training for the Police (Police Training Council).

Hirschman A.O. (1970) Exit, Voice and Loyalty, Harvard University Press.

Racial Equality Councils are independent voluntary organizations, normally funded jointly by the Commission for Racial Equality and the local authority, whose role is to work in a variety of ways to promote racial equality at the local level. Further information about the community involvement in this police training initiative can be obtained from Reading Council for Racial Equality, 4 Silver Street, Reading, Berkshire RG1 2ST.