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Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Tonight: Law and Order: 2: The Way Ahead
Today many people are demanding more freedom, more protest, bigger demonstrations, lighter sentences in the courts, a reformative attitude to crime, a tolerance of youthful violence. Others, alarmed by increasing crime and contempt for authority, demand sterner laws more sternly enforced. Between these opposing factions, often maligned by both, stand the police - the men we pay to keep the peace. Traditionally the police have been outside politics but more and more, often against their will, they are being drawn into the political arena. How will the relationship between police and public develop from the present crisis of confidence on both sides?
Tonight, in the second of two programmes on law and order, Man Alive looks at the police, through the eyes of the public as well as the men on the beat - and with outside broadcast cameras, brings both sides together