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  BS 12/19 report; this summing up of police-public relations, with some suggested reasons for the situation, was written in 1979 by the National Society for Crime Reduction and Social Justice to the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure.
 
Hints
  Source 1 is intended to link back to Case-Study 1. For sources 2 & 3, think about the reliability and utility of these two sources. Source 4 has been chosen to show just how far back some of these stories and accusations about the police go. Sources 5 & 6 show how complicated relations between police and public are and how far society has changed.
 
Worksheet Instructions
  Put some of the evidence you have found in these Sources into your Gallery Worksheet.
 
  BS 12/19 report;