This annual report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary covers the period 1 April 2005 - 31 March 2007 and examines the efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of policing in England and Wales in this period. Divided into four chapters and an annex, each chapter looks at an area of policing: Chapter 1: Issues for the police service; Chapter 2: Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary work; Chapter 3: Joint working; Chapter 4: Police service performance. Some of topics covered under these chapters include: the review of policing, interim report (see ://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/police-reform/Review_of_policing_final_report/flanagan-final-report?view=Binary); freedom of information; personnel, training and diversity; race and diversity; special commissions, covering Jean Charles de Menezes, Iraq, the Palace of Westminster, counter-terrorism; managing sex offenders in the community; serious crime and public protection.

The Sessional Papers are also known generally as the Parliamentary Papers. Until 1969, the Sessional Papers were grouped and published as Bills (legislative drafts), Reports of Committees/Reports of Commissions, and Accounts and Papers (statistics, census data, etc.). Since 1969 the Sessional Papers have been published under Bills, House Papers, and Command Papers. The Sessional Papers will include census data, statistical information and abstracts, and correspondence from officials.

British Official Publications, Second Revised Edition is a 17-chapter book that first describes the British parliamentary government. Subsequent chapters talk about the official publications and parliamentary proceedings. Other chapters present the commons and lords papers; command papers; royal commissions; bills; parliamentary debates; acts and measures; delegated legislation and administrative tribunals; committees and tribunals of inquiry; non-parliamentary publications; reference books; statistics; and national archives. Obtaining H.M.S.O. publications and non-H.M.S.O. official publications are also shown.

This fully updated and expanded second edition of Policing Scotland takes account of recent developments in Scottish policing and criminal justice against the backdrop of a dynamic political landscape and looming fiscal constraints in public services. The book offers contributions from both academics and practitioners, and not only shows police at work in contemporary Scotland, but also gives some insight into those areas where policing is carried out by non-police people and organisations. It seeks to identify what it is about Scottish policing that is distinctly Scottish, the main characteristics of modern policing in Scotland, how these have developed over the recent past, and what they have become today. In answering these questions, the book analyses policing in Scotland in the context of the new and emerging ideas about the nature, purposes and methods of policing that are developing elsewhere in the world, and seeks to determine how far Scottish policing is maintaining its own traditions, or simply becoming a localised example of wider global trends. The second edition of this popular text introduces new chapters on crime investigation, police unionism, ethnic minorities, policing violence and forensic science, as well as incorporating a major new theme which seeks to explain how those responsible for policing Scotland set about dealing with current issues such as terrorism and organised crime. This book makes a significant contribution to the current debate on policing in Scotland, and as such is an essential text for academics and those interested in policing issues.