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This book critically examines how countries across Europe have
dealt with the COVID crisis from a policing and security
perspective. Across the chapters, contributors from different
countries examine the data, press coverage, and provide
professional observations on how policing, law enforcement, police
powers and community relations were managed. They focus on how
security and governmental actors often failed to align with the
formal scripts that were specifically designed for
crisis-management, resulting in the wavering application of
professional discretion and coercive powers. Their different
approaches were evident: in some regions police were less
dominantly visible compared to other regions, where the police used
a top-down visible and repressive stance vis-a-vis public alignment
with COVID rules, including the imposition of lockdown and curfews.
Some contributors draw on data from the COROPOL (Corona Policing)
Monitor which collated data on crime, plural policing and public
order in Europe and around the world during the early phases of the
COVID crisis. Overall, this book seeks to provide comparative
critical insights and commentary as well as a practical and
operational understanding of security governance during the
COVID-19 crisis and the lessons learned to improve future
preparedness.
Public police forces are a regular phenomenon in most jurisdictions
around the world, yet their highly divergent legal context draws
surprisingly little attention. Bringing together a wide range of
police experts from all around the world, this book provides an
overview of traditional and emerging fields of public policing. In
this handbook, academics and practitioners explore the relationship
between policing and the law and focus on case material and human
rights issues. The book concludes that public policing is far from
self-evident, particularly in an era where more emphasis is placed
upon private security, anti-terrorism and modern technology. As
digital and global societies demand new solutions to rapidly
changing social challenges, public police will undergo a
transformation. New material and findings are presented with an
international-comparative perspective. It is a must-read for
students of policing, security and law and professionals in related
fields. Contributors include: F. Allum, P. de Hert, W. de Lint, M.
den Boer, M. Egan, E. Ferreira, N.R. Fyfe, S. Gilmour, S. Gomes, C.
Harfield, M. Hassan, M. Head, V. Herrington, S. Hufnagel, A. James,
T. Mankkinen, P.K. Manning, R. Mawby, T. Munk, M. O'Neill, S.
Perez, A. Pocrnic, J. Saifert, J.A. Schafer, C. Shearing, P.
Stenning, M. van der Woude, S. Virta, T. Xu, N. Yang
International co-operation in criminal law enforcement has become a
centrally important policy issue for Europe in the 1990s. In
criminal matters, when a decision is taken to go beyond the
discretionary exchange of information towards institutionalized
police co-operation, a whole Pandora's box of issues and problems
is opened. This book, based on interviews in a wide variety of
documentary sources, examines the progress of this co-operation.
The authors cover all the major and theoretical issues associated
with the emerging pattern of co-operation, including the
harmonization of criminal law and criminal procedure, law
enforcement strategies, police organization and discipline, and the
politics of immigration and civil liberties. In a European Union
without internal border controls there is widespread agreement on
the objective of closer police co-operation. But prospects in some
areas are not good and there are potential pitfalls, even dangers,
along the road to more integrated arrangements. The authors
conclude by making recommendations that proper accountability
arrangements are a prerequisite of a balanced and efficient system
of European police co-operation.
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