The acceptance of gifts and benefits – or ‘gratuities’ – has been described as ‘a police image problem that doesn’t seem to go away’ . This assertion was borne out recently in the ‘phone hacking scandal’ in the United Kingdom, when the Commissioner and Assistant...

A selection of papers from this conference, held on 4 December 2003, is available on the conference website. Speakers included Hilary Charlesworth, Susan Kneebone and Nic Maclellan.