Abstract
In memory of Professor P.A.J. Waddington, the editorial board of the International Journal of Police Science and Management will award an annual prize for the best paper in each volume. The winner will be the paper deemed to make the strongest contribution to the study of policing, based on an excellent theoretical and empirical framework, and with significant international reach. The winning paper will be announced in the first or second edition of the subsequent volume and will be awarded a prize of £175 by Sage Publications.
P.A.J. Waddington – known to everyone, it seems, as Tank – made a huge contribution to the sociology of policing through his scholarly work on the policing of public order, police occupational subculture, and the deployment of stop and search powers (among many other topics). Tank brought significant insight into the organisational, political and social environment in which policework is conducted, and his contributions often challenged conventional wisdom and orthodoxies relating to key debates and controversies. For many years he contributed to professional police publications and was a keen advocate of academic and practitioner collaboration, perhaps reflecting his early career as a police officer. Tank was an outstanding scholar and a generous colleague.