This fully updated and expanded new version builds upon the success of the first edition and aim to provide an up-to-date and authoritative account of recent developments and provide an overview of policing in Scotland, with an updated description of the basic factual information about Scottish policing as it stands in the present age.

Presents an overview of policing in Scotland. This book includes chapters on historical developments that have shaped that modern policing, and the important and challenging areas of police management, resource management and the role of police unionism, policing of crime and disorder, community policing in Scotland.