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IntroductionPauline Ramshaw, Marisa Silvestri and Mark Simpson PART ONE Thinking Critically about Police Leadership Ethical Leadership in Policing: towards a new evidence-based, ethical professionalism?Peter Neyroud Police Culture and Police LeadershipTom Cockcroft The Art of 'Flexing'. Translating a New Vision of Police Leadership from the TopPauline Ramshaw and Mark Simpson Police Leadership and the Authority of Rank: A Call for a Critical PerspectiveClaire Davis PART TWO The Changing Face of Police Leadership: New Directions In Search of Diversity: An Embodied Account of Police Leadership Marisa Silvestri Leadership, Volunteering, and the Special ConstabularyPauline Ramshaw Changes to Police Leadership: The legitimisation and the challenges of Direct Entry Samantha Scott and Emma Williams PART THREE Looking Beyond England and Wales Contested spaces: the politics of strategic police leadership in Scotland Kath Murray and Ali Malik Leading in Liminal Space: The Challenge of Policing in Northern Ireland Joanne Murphy The weight of history: politics, challenges and leadership between tradition and modernisation in the Hellenic PoliceGeorgios Papanicolaou Police Leadership in the United States Joseph Schaefer Connected Policing: The importance of social capital and boundary spanning in Australian police leadershipVictoria Herrington, Deborah Blackman, Jacinta Carroll, and Christine Owen Concluding thoughtsChief Sara Thornton – postscript.