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 involving
former Police Service of Northern Ireland officers mentoring members of the Afghan National
Police. The study contributes to the formative evaluation of a policy transfer based on principles and
practices developed in Northern Ireland. A short discussion of Afghanistan, policing, intelligence
management and policy transfer is provided, before attention is given to the capacity building
programme. The study is context rich drawing on qualitative data. Analysis draws on face to face
interviews conducted with mentors working with the ANP during 2010-2012. Interview questions
were 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 great
deal of information on the Afghan context and how specific problems occurred during implementation
of the capacity building programme. Cultural issues, corruption and resource constraints
presented obstacles to the transfer as did the general absence of a bureaucratic basis for managing
the 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 a
significant finding. Such knowledge is currently undervalued in policy transfer within the policing
sector.

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 regulation
on police co-operation
in Australia and Europe
S. Hufnagel (1)

Abstract
This article compares of legal harmonisation with a view to facilitating police cooperation in the
EU and Australia. It addresses the main processes of harmonisation and the parallel strategies
of mutual recognition and the creation broad legal frameworks in relation to both systems. The
legal analysis is complemented by interviews with practitioners in the field to assess the impact
of legal initiatives on actual police cooperation practice. It is argued that both systems have
developed distinctive strategies to promote police cooperation through legal harmonisation, but
that Australia, due to its federal political structure, has more potential to achieve harmonised and
even uniform legislation within its states. However, the strategies developed in the EU to promote
cooperation without legal harmonisation and in particular broad legal frameworks have created
a high level of regional practitioner initiative promoting bilateral and multilateral formalisation of
cooperation strategies that cannot be observed in Australia. Both entities have hence developed
distinct structures that might be relevant to the respective other system. This study is the first to
compare 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 reform
and project management. Empirical observations
on EULEX Kosovo
J. Janssens (1)

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