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Police Decision Making - Dr Laura Boulton

Season 2, Ep. 1

In our new season, we sat down with Dr Laura Boulton who is a Senior Lecturer at the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies. She has published a range of journal articles with a focus on psychology in regards to police decision making in relation to firearms and other aspects of policing. This is a very interesting episode that again demonstrates another area of the policing world.

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