European Journal of Policing Studies – Jaargang 1/4 (2013) (ISSN 2034-760x)

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Contents:

Introduction
A. Verhage, L. Bisschop, W. Hardyns

Articles

Capacity building and the Afghan National Police. Views from the frontline
G. Boyd (1) & G. Marnoch (2)

Abstract
The article reports on a study of an intelligence management capacity building programme involvingformer Police Service of Northern Ireland officers mentoring members of the Afghan NationalPolice. The study contributes to the formative evaluation of a policy transfer based on principles andpractices developed in Northern Ireland. A short discussion of Afghanistan, policing, intelligencemanagement and policy transfer is provided, before attention is given to the capacity buildingprogramme. The study is context rich drawing on qualitative data. Analysis draws on face to faceinterviews conducted with mentors working with the ANP during 2010-2012. Interview questionswere broad in nature encouraging respondents to discuss implementation in their own terms.
Respondents generally concluded policy transfer was viable but were in a position to provide a greatdeal of information on the Afghan context and how specific problems occurred during implementationof the capacity building programme. Cultural issues, corruption and resource constraintspresented obstacles to the transfer as did the general absence of a bureaucratic basis for managingthe ANP. Violence and physical geography presented rather less of a problem than was anticipated.The need to learn more about appropriate inter-personal skills in capacity building emerged as asignificant finding. Such knowledge is currently undervalued in policy transfer within the policingsector.

Keywords: Afghanistan, intelligence, capacity, policy transfer

(1) Policing consultant and researcher.
(2) Public policy specialist and reader in policy studies at the University of Ulster.

Two systems, one challenge? Comparing legal regulationon police co-operationin Australia and Europe
S. Hufnagel (1)

Abstract
This article compares of legal harmonisation with a view to facilitating police cooperation in theEU and Australia. It addresses the main processes of harmonisation and the parallel strategiesof mutual recognition and the creation broad legal frameworks in relation to both systems. Thelegal analysis is complemented by interviews with practitioners in the field to assess the impactof legal initiatives on actual police cooperation practice. It is argued that both systems havedeveloped distinctive strategies to promote police cooperation through legal harmonisation, butthat Australia, due to its federal political structure, has more potential to achieve harmonised andeven uniform legislation within its states. However, the strategies developed in the EU to promotecooperation without legal harmonisation and in particular broad legal frameworks have createda high level of regional practitioner initiative promoting bilateral and multilateral formalisation ofcooperation strategies that cannot be observed in Australia. Both entities have hence developeddistinct structures that might be relevant to the respective other system. This study is the first tocompare the Australian federal system of cooperation with the EU.

Keywords: police cooperation, legal harmonisation, Mutual Recognition, EU, Australia

(1) Lecturer in Criminal Law at Queen Mary, University of London.

International police reformand project management. Empirical observationson EULEX Kosovo
J. Janssens (1)

Abstract
In February 2008, the European Union (EU) launched its largest civilian crisis management operationunder its Common Security and Defence Policy: