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Hello, hello, hello.

Whatever happened to old-fashioned policing.

Find out.

Hello, remember the television program introduced by this signature tune.

Yes, of course, Dixon of Dock Green. It sounds very ancient now, doesn't it? Although the

last live edition was broadcast as recently as 1976. For many years it ran, I suppose incongruously if you like, alongside Z-Kars, which presented quite

a different more hard-edge, more cynical view of policing than that, epitomised by good old

avuncular Bobby on the beat George Dixon

remember? Well that quest for realism for telling the detailed truth about how police go about

their business, how they're shaped by their occupational culture, how they reconcile the high ideals of

policing with life on the street. Well that's all now, which pretty well a standard ingredient

to the police dramas which continue to dominate the TV schedules.

But what is the empirical reality behind these contemporary representations?

How much has the police culture changed in recent years and how much has such change been promoted

by shifts in social attitudes or by changes in the nature of crime or by the increasing emphasis

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