Enhancing Police Service Delivery: Global Perspectives and Contemporary Policy Implications

1. Introduction and Overview: Understanding Police Service Delivery.- 2. The Governance of the Police and current Challenges to Police Service Delivery in England and Wales.- 3. Evaluating and Revising Police Stop and Search Practices in Scotland.- 4. Situational Awareness during a Crisis in Norway: Seeing the Forest, but not the Trees.- 5. The Impact of Police Officer-involved Shootings on Organizational Policy in the United States.- 6. Police Militarization: Have the Police in the United States Transitioned from Public Servants to Occupying Army?.- 7. The Role of Police Stressors on the Delivery of Police Services in the United States.- 8. Examining Police Interaction with the Mentally Ill in the United States.- 9. Enhancing Police Services through Public and Inter-agency Collaboration in the United States.- 10. Sentinel Event Reviews in the United States and Canada: Enhancing Service Delivery to the Community.- 11. Client-Centered Policing: A Focus on Positive Community Contacts within Canada.- 12. Do We Get the Police We Deserve? A Historical Review of Police Executive Selection in New York and other American Cities.- 13. The Role of Police in the Offender Re-entry Era in the United States.- 14. New Zealand Police's Policing Excellence and Prevention First Strategy: A Model for Transforming Police Service Delivery.- 15. Transforming a Para-militaristic Police Force to a Human Rights-oriented Police Service in a Violent Country: The South African Challenge.- 16. The Challenges of Reform in the Royal St. Lucia Police Force.- 17. Exploring Factors Impacting the Role of Management and Leadership in Police Service Delivery in Taiwan: A Legal-Institutional Perspective.- 18. The Effectiveness of Self-efficacy in the Reduction of Police Attitude to Corruption in Nigeria.-19. Maximizing the Effective Use of Volunteer, Part-Time and Hybrid Law Enforcement Personnel into Crime Prevention and Counter-terrorism Initiatives.- 20. Is Managerialism alive and well in the Police Service?.- 21. Organizational Learning from Field Research in Policing: How Police can improve Policy and Practice by implementing Randomized Controlled Trials.- 22. Management culture in the police force - toxic or tonic?.- 23. Evidence-based Policing: The Impact of Organizational Context & Leadership on Adoption.- 24. Afterword and Final Thoughts: Improving Police Service Delivery.