TY - JOUR AU - Waddington, P.A.J. AB - Opinion Frontline Voice: P.A.J. Waddington Interviews Chief Inspector Oliver Wright P.A.J. Waddington In the first of a series of interviews, Professor P.A.J. Waddington interviews Chief Inspector Wright, Neighbourhood Policing Project Manager in Thames Valley Police UK, on the challenges ahead for neighbourhood policing. Chief Inspector Oliver Wright is the Neigh- represented a distinctive advance. Central to bourhood Policing Project Manager in ‘neighbourhood policing’ is that it is based Britain’s Thames Valley Police, policing the upon a team of Police Community Support counties of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Buck- Officers (PCSOs) who are led by a police inghamshire that lie in the centre of the constable. PCSOs are auxiliary police staff country to the north-west of London. Chief who patrol a dedicated area but have only Inspector Wright is responsible for ensuring limited police powers. For Chief Inspector the smooth introduction of neighbourhood Wright their great advantage is that they policing, about which he is enthusiastic but cannot easily be redeployed to other duties, also realistic about the challenges that he and as has repeatedly happened with police con- his colleagues will have to face. It is ‘work in stables serving as community police officers. progress’; indeed, it has barely begun, TI - Frontline Voice: P.A.J. Waddington Interviews Chief Inspector Oliver Wright JO - Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice DO - 10.1093/police/pam021 DA - 2007-08-02 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/frontline-voice-p-a-j-waddington-interviews-chief-inspector-oliver-GlTrxllTP2 SP - 184 EP - 186 VL - 1 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -