Article:
George E. Dix, Undercover Investigations and Police Rulemaking, 53 TEXAS L. REV. 203 (1975).
 

Abstract:
Increasingly, police agencies are entrusted with the task of promulgating and enforcing rules of conduct. The relation of the substantive law to these self-imposed rules is unclear, but Professor Dix argues that the law should dictate the substance of these rules. In an effort to underscore the problems associated with police rulemaking, Professor Dix examines efforts at police-made rules in one specific area—undercover investigations. While this article concludes that a certain guarded optimism is warranted, the major problem facing police-made rules in this area, according to Professor Dix, is that the substantive law is too underdeveloped to provide a meaningful background for the promulgation of effective rules.