Self Policing

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Referring to any practice in which the members of a profession set and enforce quality-of-care standards and practise parameters
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Even several state attorneys general who have been briefed on the NAD's activities say they are assured that further state intervention into supplement advertising may not be necessary in light of self-policing by the industry itself.
Supplement advertising review--10 years & still going strong: the CRN-NAD joint program continues to hold industry accountable by targeting fraudulent and misleading ads
Better self-policing within scientific fields could lead to greater understanding and more useful results.
How Science Goes Wrong
Golfers are expected to be self-policing. But TV evidence was so conclusive, Woods (pictured below) raised eyebrows when he continued to protest his innocence.
Chamblee: I'm not proud of Tiger row
The auditor general reported that state regulators were unable to assure that the radioactive levels of waste brought into Utah was incompliance with state requirements because the division relied too heavily on self-policing by the generators and shippers of the waste.
Utah house passes measure regulating radioactive waste generators
Instead, it would focus on overseeing a self-policing programme executed by the manufacturers themselves through more than 3,000 of their employees assigned to review safety on behalf of the FAA.
Inside Air Travel
A Facebook spokesman said the network was reliant on self-policing by its global network of one billion users.
UK lawmaker drawing up guidelines to deal with abusive posts on Twitter, Facebook
The rules are strict, but monitoring is limited as the prototypical honor code applies, with "good self-policing in the Scrabble world," Williams said.
Scrabble Player Caught Cheating, Hiding Blank Tiles, At US Tournament
Self-policing can't work and tests must be mandatory.
DVLA number plate test questioned
Rick Ketchum, head of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the self-policing body for the securities industry, said the question is "a matter of regulatory concern" for his organisation and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investigation into Facebook trading
Much of the discussion takes place in the context of traditional Indian self-policing societies in rural India, where caste 'panchayats' or tribal heads enforce the rules of the community.
Community policing; misnomer or fact?
The failed pubco model is decimating the pub industry and the Government should tear up the notion that self-policing these industry codes of practice will save it."
CRISIS ROCKS PUBS SECTOR
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