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Policing is about public service, and the future betterment of its function can be aided by a more thinking approach within its leadership. Given the complexity and change facing policing simply doing more of the same is problematic, as a focus on policing transactionally arresting its way out of challenges will not work in the future. In this chapter, thinking about police thinking reveals the benefits of reflexivity in shaping a more agile and listening service mission. In particular, the role of police leaders in setting the cultural ethos of thinking as a valuable operational tool is examined with examples of how this is possible by drawing upon contemporary practitioner experiences and insights.
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There have been experiments in logarithmic decision-making: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41996422
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Coxhead, J. (2023). The Thought Police: The Need for Police Leaders as Thinkers. In: Verma, A., Das, D.K. (eds) Police Leaders as Thinkers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19700-0_4
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