K. Laybourn & D. Taylor 
Policing in England and Wales, 1918-39 [PDF ebook] 
The Fed, Flying Squads and Forensics

List of Tables Dedications Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: THE PROBLEM OF PUBLIC ORDER AND THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF THE POLICE The Legacy of the Great War: the Failure of Police Trade Unionism and the Emergence of the Police Federation of England and Wales Policing Public Order in the Interwar Years Detective and Scientific Work: A New Vista PART II: THE PROPHECY OF NAHUM: MOTOR VEHICLES, THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN ‘A mere traffic signalling device’? The Debate on Policing and Traffic Control The Police and the Practicalities of Traffic Management Motoring Offences and the Enforcement of the Law Cars, Crime and Coppers: Combating the ‘Smash and Grab’ Raider Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index

KEITH LAYBOURN Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His main interests are in British Labour history, British social policy, the history of gambling, and the history of policing. He has written and edited more than forty books and numerous articles including
Britain’s First Labour Government (2006) with John Shepherd, and
Britain on the Breadline (1991).
 
DAVID TAYLOR Emeritus Professor of the School of Music,  Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author
Hooligans, Harlots and Hangmen (2010) and
Policing the Victorian Town: The Development of Policing in Middlesbrough c. 1840-1914 (2002)