Transnational Policing Research Articles

Issues in Transnational Policing (review)

Issues in Transnational Policing (review)

Review: Issues in Transnational Policing

Review: Issues in Transnational Policing

’The trapeze artists and the ground crew’ police cooperation and intelligence exchange mechanisms in Europe and North America: A comparative empirical study

Based on the discourses of police officers, this article explores the reasons why co‐operation treaties and information exchange mechanisms intended to ensure official transnational policing have been imperfectly applied in both Europe and North‐America. Initially, police representatives were concerned about how to manage effective control measures in a more or less continental frame‐work, but these concerns were recuperated by bureaucrats from outside police organizations who formalized ways of communicating and cooperating between police agencies and this happened on both continents. What was designed for efficiency and accountability turned out to be so distant from practical police work that, in the end, patrolmen and detectives did not abandon the informal networks they had already become accustomed to using. This merely added to the maze of communication channels and may not have significantly improved the security of citizens.

Convergence of Policing Policies and Transnational Policing in Europe

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Issues in Transnational Policing

Issues in Transnational Policing

Transnational Police Cooperation in Europe and in North America: Revisiting the Traditional Border Between Internal and External Security Matters, or How Policing is Being Globalized

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Les heurts et les bonheurs de la coopération policière internationale en Europe, entre la myopie des bureaucrates et la sclérose culturelle policière

This article explores, from the discourses of police officers, the reasons why co-operation treaties and information exchange mechanisms intended to ensure official trans-national policing are so difficult to apply in Europe. If, initially, police organizations representatives were concerned about how to manage effective control measures in a border free Europe, it turned out that these concerns were recuperated by bureaucrats from outside police organizations in an effort to formalize ways of communicating and cooperating between police agencies through out the continent. What was designed for efficiency and accountability turned out to be so distant from practical police work that, in the end, patrolmen and detectives never gave away the informal networks they are accustomed to use.

New Forms of Transnational Policing: The Emergence of Financial Intelligence Units in the European Union and the Challenges for Human Rights: Part 2

This paper consists of two parts, the first of which was published in the last issue of this Journal (Volume 3, Number 2). The second part of this paper will deal with the legal framework of the European Union.

New Forms of Transnational Policing: The Emergence of Financial Intelligence Units in the European Union and the Challenges for Human Rights: Part 1

This paper consists of two parts, the second of which will be published in the next issue of this Journal (Volume 3, Number 3). The second part of this paper will deal with the legal framework of the European Union.

The Global Cops Cometh: Reflections on Transnationalization, Knowledge Work and Policing Subculture

This paper employs notions about the occupational subculture of policing and policing as 'knowledge work' in order to discuss transnational trends in policing. The complex unity between the transnational subculture of policing, which is sustained through knowledge exchange, and the subculture of transnational policing, which is precariously negotiated through practical arrangements for cross-border policing, is viewed as an achievement of the knowledge society

The goal of democracy in international police assistance programs

There exists a large and growing international exchange network for policing ideologies, technologies and skills. Transnational policing programs seek to promote more effective global crime control, help develop and sustain demographic policing reforms, and support the stability of the emerging new political and economic world order. Existing transnational policing programs and emerging international regimes of democratic policing are sketched. The likelihood of successful reforms are assessed considering existing policy and standards of democratic policing.

Making sense of police intelligence? The use of a cybernetic model in analysing information and power in police intelligence processes

Writing and research into policing has concerned issues of police action much more than their information and intelligence activities. Police themselves are now paying more attention to the latter for a number of reasons including transnational policing developments such as Europol, a post Cold War increase in concern with ‘transnational organised crime’, the application of the ‘new public management’ to police, a search for new police strategies to ‘fight’ crime and developing policing networks. It is argued that the resulting shift towards ‘intelligence‐led’ policing can best be analysed within the context of a cybernetic model of police intelligence systems that relates the general shift towards governance with the more specific developments in policing. The main elements of the system ‐ targeting, gathering, analysis and dissemination ‐ are discussed and the conclusion indicates some of the research questions provoked.

Police Co-operation in the English Channel Region 1968-1996

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Transnational Policing and the Makings of a Post-modern State

Transnational Policing and the Makings of a Post-modern State

Transnational Private Policing

Transnational Private Policing

Global transnational policing: notes on changes in the nature of social organization bearing on policing

Global transnational policing: notes on changes in the nature of social organization bearing on policing

The Role of Enforcement of Law in the Establishment of a New International Order: A Proposal for a Transnational Police Force

This essay examines the need to supplement national self-help in enforcing desirable global norms, explains the potential contributions of a transnational enforcement agency to the creation of a more just and peaceful world polity, describes how such an agency might function, and explores steps for establishing such an agency. The proposed transnational enforcement agency is discussed within the context of a comprehensive process of change that aims to domesticate international politics and transnationalize national politics. By gradually reinforcing preferred norms through more effective monitoring and enforcement of them, it is possible to increase the governability of and to humanize world society, as well as to increase the governing ability of political institutions at all levels. The authors examine the problem of unequal enforcement and emphasize that the proposed transnational agency, even imperfectly functioning, holds more promise for helping to establish justice and keep the peace than do present diplomatic and military practices. The agency's long-range utility for transforming the international system is no less important than its short-term potential for alleviating structural and direct violence.