In Britain, substantial cuts in police budgets alongside controversial handling of incidents such as politically sensitive enquiries, public disorder and relations with the media have recently triggered much debate about public knowledge and trust in the police. To date, however, little academic...

We develop a general theorem to prove the uniform in bandwidth consistency of kernel-type function estimators. This method unifies the approaches in some other recent papers. We show how to apply our results to kernel distribution function estimators and the smoothed empirical process. The...