Professionalism within the Police Service incorporates not but one characteristic, but rather numerous characteristics and "involves the adoption of a set of values and attitudes" which aim to forge the respect and conduct worthy of a profession. Such things impartiality, accountability, specialised knowledge and ethical standards are all fundamental characteristics that ensure that professionalism continues to become an integral part of the New South Wales Police Service. Subsequently the New South Wales Police Service has noted the importance of professionalism as a quality important to the policing occupation, and consequently recognised it within such documents as the New South Wales Police Services Code of Conduct and Ethics.
             Professionalism and the characteristics attributed to it however can and do differ significantly between various vocations and as such many professional occupations (i.e. Medicine) often place an emphasis on different fundamental characteristics. Professionalism within the Australian medical field for example generally emphasises the placing of a patients interests above that of the physician, the maintenance of a high level of competence and integrity, and the providing of expert advice to society on matters dealing with health.
             However, despite the importance of professionalism, its features, and the desire by the New South Wales Police Service to incorporate these ideas of professionalism into everyday police practices, it has proven complicated to do such. This point is further emphasised throughout Justice Wood's reports within The Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Services which proves that even the best-intentioned of investigators and commissions have failed to root out such unprofessional conduct as police corruption.
             As previously mentioned Brogden and Shearing (1993) offers us a good and valuable model to judge policing professional and its characteristics ...