The iron hand in the velvet glove : the modernisation of policing in New Zealand...
The iron hand in the velvet glove : the modernisation of policing in New Zealand, 1886-1917
Maker Maker RoleAuthor
Maker MakerNew Zealand Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch
About this objectExamines the police force which had emerged during the transition from the turbulence of the frontier years to the relative tranquillity of the later nineteenth century. A centralised, essentially unarmed New Zealand Police Force normally proffered a velvet glove to a society in which both pakeha and Maori generally behaved peacefully ... [requiring] nothing stronger than - in international policing terms - a benign force. But policing ... remained an occupation fraught with danger, difficulty and excitement. This was particularly the case in periods of 'emergency': the 1890 and 1912-13 'industrial troubles', for example ... The glove concelaed an iron hand that could be used without hesitation when necessary. This volume examines the development of modern organisational, forensic and detection (e.g. fingerprint identification) techniques, and the dilemmas of policing ina period of ever-increasing state encroachment upon citizens' thoughts and deeds (e.g. the problems of liquor law enforcement and the special social control measures of the First World War). In the period covered, policing came under intense official and public scrutiny. Police 'scandals' led to commissions of enquiry in which police and public grievances were aired in great detail. Out of these arose a reformed Force whose basic methods and organisation lasted for decades. Contents: A peaceful order of things -- Problematic policing in the stabilised society, 1886-1897 -- Trauma and reform: Tunbridge's commissionership, 1897-1903 -- The pursuit of professionalisation, 1903-1912 -- Industrial unionism, Police unionism, 1912-1913 -- Challenges and continuities, 1913-1917. Includes bibliographies and index.
Date Made1999
PublisherDunmore Press
Publication PlaceWellington
Series TitleThe history of policing in New Zealand ; v. 3
Subject and Association KeywordsPolice -- New Zealand -- History
Subject and Association KeywordsNew Zealand -- History -- 19th century
Subject and Association Keywords Named CollectionThomas & Bridget Gallagher Library
Object Type ISBN/ISSN0864692447 (v.3)
Object number2014.1.0772
Spine Label363.2 HIL
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