What Is Police Corruption?

This chapter examines the literature relating to the introduction of Sect. 26 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 in the context of a nascent code of police ethics, the late introduction onto the Bill of the offence of corrupt or improper practice which applies only to sworn police officers, and an exploration of the legal landscape as it impacts on corruption and policing. It also sets out the extrarationality associated with public policy introduction and why defining police corruption is harder than it might seem.