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Police and the Public Assignment “The Police services of England and Wales should be independent of political influence and yet representative of the public they police”. Within this essay I will include the following subjects: · Accountability of the Police · The Tripartite system · The Police Authority · Home Office · Chief Constables · Reform “Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?” – (Who shall guard the guards?) “Accountability pre supposes both about what constitutes and acceptable performance and about the language of justification to be used by actors in defending their conduct. Furthermore, it implies a definition of a relationship between actors. To talk about accountability is to define who can call for an account and who owes a duty of explanation.” The police are the specialist carriers of the state bedrock power: the monopoly of legitimate force. It is clearly shown today that there is a danger of abuse, which was expressed by several groups who are against the beginning of a modern police service within the UK, during the early part of the nineteenth century. Political and social polarisation grew dramatically during the 1970’s and the early part of the 1980’s which caused the