Before taking up an academic career, Clive Harfield served for twenty years in various UK police organizations in local, national, and transnational policing roles. As an Associate Professor he has taught and researched at the University of Wollongong, NSW, (criminal law, transnational crime prevention); the University of the Sunshine Coast, Qld, (cybersecurity and cyber-investigation ethics); the Australian Catholic University (criminology and criminal justice); and he has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland (law). In designing and delivering criminal justice sector capacity-building support for law enforcement practitioners and policy-makers, he has worked in Bangladesh (counter-terrorist financing) and Papua New Guinea (anti-corruption and organizational integrity), funded by Australian federal government foreign aid programs. In the police education and research arena, he has undertaken the roles of Visiting Lecturer at the Police University College, Norway; International Visiting Fellow at Bath Spa University, UK; and Fulbright Research Fellow at Georgetown University, Washington DC (USA).

Professor Emeritus Allyson Macvean's distinguished career began in the Serious and Organized Crime Unit of the Home Office, from where she moved into academia, establishing the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (now Buckinghamshire Chilterns University). As Professor of Policing and Criminology, and Co-Director of Bath Spa University's Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Professional Practice, Professor Macvean worked closely with the Royal Marines to help re-establish ethical culture and ethics training; work which, in turn, led to her being commissioned to review ethical climate, ethical awareness, and ethical leadership across the five fighting arms of the Naval Service. She has been instrumental in the establishment of police ethics committees in England, Wales, and Scotland, and was a founding member of the UK Police Ethics group (now the UK Police National Ethics Committee). In 2019, for her services to ethical leadership and ethical policing, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

Introduction, Part 1 - Thinking about policing ethically, 1. Purpose, ethos, and ethics, 2. Ethics, rights, and dignity, 3. A professional ethic for policing?, 4. Managing power, 5. Managing vulnerability, 6. The public interest(s), Part 2 - Policing ethically in practice, 7. Codifying ethics, 8. Making frontline ethics work, 9. Ethical leadership, 10. Ethically informed decision-making, 11. Managing risk as moral obligation, 12. Policing ethically