Policing and Crime in Contemporary London: Towards a developmental agenda?
Journal: Leiden Repository (Leiden University)
Year: 2014

In support of the Policing European Metropolises Project and as a starting point for investigating such a complex and challenging subject as policing the global city of London, the article provides an exposition of the current agenda for policing and crime as advanced by the London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), which assumed responsibility for police governance in January 2012.To justify this focus, the article draws upon distinctions made in urban regime theory about governing