... also be looking into the resources available to the police, and thus whether or not they are good enough and how they may be improved. The police, once upon a time, had the image of perfection- in the early 1800s the local 'bobby' was someone who was glad to help out wherever possible, someone who was there for his community, was largely unarmed and used force only as a last resort. Order was maintained by negotiation and 'pushing and shoving' methods. This style of policing is known as consensual or communal policing, the objective of which is due process. However, the police's values changed from due process to crime control, known as military policing. Their goals are now crime fighting rather than social peace keeping, and they are now crime fighting specialists instead of being citizens in uniform. They use weapons more readily than before, use force as a first resort ...

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