Submitted: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:37:15 WST +800 Dr. Joan Wardrop Curtin University of Technology Social Sciences and Asian Languages GPO Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia phone: +61 9 351 7084 fax: +61 9 351 3166 e-mail: wardrop@spectrum.curtin.edu.au South and Southern Africa, research into policing in South Africa (focussed on participant observation fieldwork with Soweto Flying Squad)