Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Law and Criminal Justice Studies
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Campus: Canterbury
QUALIFICATIONS:
BA (Hons Kent); MA (Kent); Ph.D (Exeter); Dip. Man (Dist)
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Module leader (Level 5): 'Managing the Police' and 'Transnational & Organised Crime'. I also contribute to undergraduate dissertation supervision and the MA in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Year 3 Co-ordinator for the BSc (Hons) Police Studies and Policing (in-service) programme.
RESEARCH, CONSULTANCY & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Publications:
Caless. B & Tong. S (Forthcoming) 'An appropriate Space': Chief Officers and Police Accountability, Police Practice & Research.
Caless, B (2011) Policing at the Top: the Roles, Values and Attitudes of Chief Police Officers|, Abingdon: Policy Press. (Short interview with the author|)
Caless, B (Ed.) (2010) with Bownas, J, Simpson, M, Spruce, B and Underwood, R, Blackstone's Special Constabulary Handbook|, Oxford: Oxford University Press;
Bryant, R & Bryant, S (Eds.) (2010) Caless, B, Lawton-Barrett, K, Underwood, R, Wood, D & Murphy, R (Contributors) (2010, and annual editions from 2006) Blackstone's Student Police Officer Workbook|. Oxford: Oxford
Caless, B, (Ed.) (2010), with Bryant, R, Spruce, B & Underwood, R (contributors) Blackstone's PCSO Handbook|, 2nd Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Contributor to Harfield, C (Ed.), (2009) Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook: Practice & Procedure|, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Caless, B (2008) "Corruption in the Police : the reality of the 'Dark Side'"|, The Police Journal, Vol. 81, No.1, Vathek Press, University of Portsmouth, July 2008, pp.3-24
Caless, B (2008) "'Persistent Dark Matter': Police corruption 1998 to 2008" in Ethics in Policing, Vol. 1, No 2, Summer 2008, pp. 16-28
Philips, D Sir , Caless. B & Bryant, R (2007) 'Intelligence and its application to operational policing'|, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Volume 1, No. 4, 2007, pp 438-446
Caless, B (2007) "Numties in Yellow Jackets",| Policing, A Journal of Policy and Practice,, Oxford University Press, Volume 1, No 2, August, pp. 187-195
Presentations and Conference Papers:
The European Diploma in Policing, International Division, Bramshill NPIA, 2005
Targeted Policing, Best Value Review, 2004, Kent Police Authority
Typologies for Police Corruption, ACPO Spring Conference 2000
Presentation: Ethics and Counter-Corruption, Chief Constables' Council 1999
ACPO National Counter-Corruption Advisory Group 1998-2000 (research findings)
Research and other contracts:
The European Diploma Programme, 2005-2007, Leonardo Da Vinci Fund
'Presenteeism' and the long hours' culture among Chief Officers of Police, 2005, a research paper for the Chief Constable, Kent Police; part of a wider study: Work-Life Balance in the Police, 2006, Maidstone: Kent Police
Intelligence and Informant-Handling, 2000, research paper for South East Regional Police Conference
Consultancies and professional activity:
Field research into 'Top Cops', interviews with chief officers and analysis of views (ongoing)
ACPO Probation and student police officer Standing Committee, 2001-2004
South-East Regional Police member of Committee for Human Resources, Learning and Development 2000-2007
Best Value Review Leader in Targeted Policing, Kent Police 2002-2004; Editor, BVR publication, Kent Police Authority (peer-reviewed by UKC; Professor S Uglow and Professor C Hale) 2004
Research Interests:
Police leadership, comparative criminal justice, neighbourhood policing and the 'social contract' with communities, police performance, police partnerships and private policing.
OTHER INTERESTS:
Fellow, Chartered Management Institute;
Fellow, Institute for Leadership and Management