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What is Police

Chapter 245
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Police forces are government organizations charged with the responsibility of maintaining law and order, and to ensure first assistance in emergencies or crises.
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VO as an Alternative to Hierarchy in the Dutch Police Sector
Peter Groenewegen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and F. Pieter Wagenaar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch245
Abstract
The Dutch police system is neither centralized nor fully decentralized, as it consists of “regions” bigger than the municipalities, but smaller than most provinces. These regions are to a large degree autonomous. Such autonomy implies that regional police forces could not communicate with each other in the recent past, as their communication systems differed. They were also unable to look into each other’s files, as national police registries were extremely rare. Fragmentation of this kind has seriously hindered cooperation in the recent past.
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Reform the Police and End the Violence: What Works Between Community Policing and State Police in North Central Nigeria
Formal or informal force organized by the community for the maintenance of law and order.
Published in Chapter: Reform the Police and End the Violence: What Works Between Community Policing and State Police in North Central Nigeria; From: Global Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System
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