Leading Policing in Europe

As a companion study to the empirical research which formed the basis for Policing at the Top; the roles, values and attitudes of chief police officers, this book will present a wider treatment of the elite in policing on a European scale. This new study examines the differences in the appointment and selection of chief police officers across Europe, the different ways in which they are developed and promoted, their views on political governance of the police, their relationships with one another and in the wider criminal justice systems in Europe and their views about cooperation on an international scale to combat the contemporary threats posed by organised crime and terrorism to society. In a world of increasingly global crime, it follows that policing has to be similarly international. Empirical research underpins this investigation into the world of the chief police officer in Europe partly with a view to understanding what sort of people become top cops in a polyglot European community of 27 nations, partly to ascertain what the policing priorities are for those officers who set strategic direction, and partly to investigate what relations they have with each other across their jurisdictional boundaries. How, for example, do chief police officers in Italy find their German counterparts? How easy is it to mount a joint operation between more than three countries against drugs or people traffickers? What do established police leaders in Western Europe think of their emergent counterparts in Eastern Europe?