Policing in Hong Kong:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, Kam C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham Ashgate Pub. 2012
Series:International and comparative criminal justice
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Cover; Contents; Foreword by Peter Manning; Preface; 1 Policing Hong Kong: The Early Years; 3 Controlling Police Use of Force; 4 Beat Patrol Deployment in Hong Kong; 5 Policing Computer Crime in Hong Kong; 6 Assessing Police Investigative Powers: The Case of Interception of Communications; 7 One Country, Two Systems of Policing: People's Republic of China Gong An vs. Hong Kong Police Reform; Index
This book is one of the first to document the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong police force following the reversion of political authority from the UK to China in 1997. Thematically organized and oriented towards those issues of greatest concern to the public, such as police accountability, assaults on police, police deployment, surveillance powers, and policing across borders, it provides a detailed discussion of these and other contemporary issues. The opening chapter sets the work within historical context while the final chapter provides a comparison of policing in Hong Ko
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:378 pages
ISBN:9781409410614
1409410617
128067766X
9781280677663
1409410609
9781409410607

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