Quis Ipsos Custodes Custodiet

This dissertation aims to identify, examine and expose a lacuna in the literature regarding a group who have traditionally been overlooked due to wrongly being subsumed within state apparatus. Police officers fulfil a key role in keeping people safe and it is only right that society reciprocates this. Human rights movements can be traced throughout history and are predicated on the backs of those who have suffered dearly. If it wasn’t for the plight, experiences and anguish of the likes of the suffragettes to the Jews in the Nazi concentration camps, contentiously, there would be no rights at all or anything to learn from. History is an important teacher and we must always strive to learn from it, nor take for granted contemporary rights. Eternal vigilance is a high price for liberty which must be cherished. If people are treated with dignity, fairness, respect according to rules, regulations and procedures, then it is high impossible to go wrong. Indeed it could be argued that a departure from these principles heralds a modern form of corruption which must be spurned. It is hoped that this work will bring benefits not only to officers working in Scotland, but across the world.