Dr. John Topping is currently a lecturer in criminology at the University of Ulster. His main research interests are on policing with a particular focus upon community policing, police training and public order policing. He is also head of social media strategy for the Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRiSS), also at UU. An overview of his research can found at: uk.linkedin.com/in/johnrtopping/ You can also follow him on Twitter: @drjohntopping
So the Northern Ireland Audit Office’s (NIAO) ‘Review of Continuous Improvement Arrangements in Policing’ has come and gone. To many outside policing and academic circles,…