Designed in an exam format, with questions to be answered in three hours, this practice paper helps candidates prepare for their NPPF Step Two Legal Examination (formerly OSPRE® Part I). Questions are presented in the Type A exam-style and answers are fully referenced to the official syllabus in Blackstone's Police Manuals 2021.

Designed in an exam format, with questions to be answered in three hours, this practice paper helps candidates prepare for their NPPF Step Two Legal Examination (formerly OSPRE® Part I). Questions are presented in the Type A exam-style and answers are fully referenced to the official syllabus in Blackstone's Police Manuals 2022.

The only official books for police officers preparing for the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination containing the syllabus on which the examinations are based. Endorsed by the College of Policing, these are the most effective revision books for exam candidates.

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

This revised and updated Blackstone's Police Sergeants' Mock Examination Paper 2008, ensures that Sergeants' Part I candidates are fully prepared for their multiple-choice examination. The book is designed the format of the actual exam, so candidates can practice taking the whole exam in 3 hours. Like the exam, the book is split into two handy sections, one containing the 150 question mock exam and answer sheet and the second containing the answers and detailed marking matrix with explanations and references. The book tests the content of the Blackstone's Police Manuals 2008 and candidates will find the book a user-friendly and valuable tool which should ensure a clearer understanding of the format and requirements of the exam. Covers all recent legal developments including the Fraud Act 2007, the Road Safety Act 2006 and revised PACE Codes of Practice. This product is not endorsed by NPIA.

"The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844" by Frederick Engels is a powerful indictment of the Industrial Revolution's detrimental impact on workers. Engels meticulously demonstrates how industrial cities like Manchester and Liverpool experienced alarmingly high mortality rates due to diseases, with workers being four times more likely to succumb to illnesses like smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough compared to their rural counterparts. The overall death rate in these cities far surpassed the national average, painting a grim picture of the workers' plight. Engels goes beyond mortality statistics to shed light on the dire living conditions endured by industrial workers. He argues that their wages were lower than those of pre-industrial workers, and they were forced to inhabit unhealthy and unpleasant environments. Addressing a German audience, Engels' work is considered a classic account of the universal struggles faced by the industrial working class. It reveals his transformation into a radical thinker after witnessing the harsh realities in England. "The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844" remains an essential resource for understanding the hardships endured by workers during the Industrial Revolution. Engels' meticulous research and impassioned arguments continue to shape discussions on labor rights, social inequality, and the historical agency of the working class.

Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.

The only official source for police officers of the full syllabus for the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. Exclusively endorsed by the College of Policing, Blackstone's Police Manuals are the most effective revision guides for exam candidates.

Intelligence services form an important but controversial part of the modern state. Drawing mainly on British and American examples, this book provides an analytic framework for understanding the 'intelligence community' and assessing its value. The author, a former senior British intelligence officer, describes intelligence activities, the purposes which the system serves, and the causes and effects of its secrecy. He considers 'intelligence failure' and how organisation and management can improve the chances of success. Using parallels with the information society and the current search for efficiency in public administration as a whole, the book explores the issues involved in deciding how much intelligence is needed and discusses the kinds of management necessary. In his conclusions Michael Herman discusses intelligence's national value in the post-Cold War world. He also argues that it has important contributions to make to international security, but that its threat-inducing activities should be kept in check.