Police Patrol Work in the Netherlands

This book is about police patrol work, especially emergency patrol and community policing in The Netherlands. The authors first give an empirical based picture of everyday policing and then examine one of the core problems of policing: the question what determines what is involved in police patrol work.Although the fieldwork is carried out in The Netherlands, this study also is of importance for policing in other countries. By looking across borders, we do not only learn about policing in a foreign country but we also learn what are the distinctive characteristics of policing in our home country. Furthermore, the authors explicitly place their findings in an international context by comparing their observations with research that has been carried out in Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Canada and the United States. Based on their findings the authors provide the reader with an empirical grounded explanation model that can be used by police chiefs to better understand what is effective in police management as well as by social scientists to design future research.