Police auxiliaries in Australia: Police liaison officers and the dilemmas of being part of the police extended family

Policing and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 280-297

  Cherney, Adrian ^a   Chui, Wing Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Australia; Auxiliarisation; Plural policing; Police liaison officers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957081763     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2010.505286     Document Type: Article

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