The analysis used findings of a study of a child protection unit to argue that the pure and scientific forms of risk assessment and management found in policy statements are hybridized through police practice, under the influence of factors such as police culture and the hunches of individual police officers. The analysis identified three hybridized models of risk. These are the forensic risk model, the witness model, and the police-rationale-for-intervention risk model. The analysis concluded that these models aid understanding of how the police sustain and justify their working practices as they try to detect, investigate, and regulate pedophiles in diverse settings. Reference notes (Author abstract modified)