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This book examines the use of liaison officers in police cooperation. The book's contributors, both eminent academics and seasoned practitioners, present their findings from a wide range of geographical and functional viewpoints. Students and law enforcement professionals are made familiar with the blue web of policing across the world. The book offers a considerable variety of perspectives, ranging from institutional to informal, and from sociological to psychological. The detailed accounts form an inspiring collection on contemporary practices of liaison officers that, not only includes orig

Within the European Union (eu), security issues are increasingly framed as risks and threats that can be controlled bypreventive measures. Theeuhas established several agencies, legal instruments and databases to facilitate the prevention of crime, terrorism and irregular migration. This article takes stock of the way in which theeuseeks to balance the preventive security logic with its own human rights framework. While human rights can jointly be considered an evolving normative framework in theeu, there is a need to identify which human rights are at risk and how (non-) compliance ought to be monitored.The article states some concerns about equal access to human rights as well as the lack of a strong general oversight mechanism. Continued structural attention should be given toex antehuman-rights impact assessments and there needs to be more emphasis on regular external evaluations of human rights complianceex post facto. In relation to the external action of theeu, theeumust practice what it preaches and needs to reflect critically on the necessity and proportionality of precautionary security measures.

This article analyses the evolution of European Union (EU) police cooperation on the basis of structural processes in the form of agencification, regulation and standardization, as well as substantive processes in the form of information-sharing and multi-disciplinary cooperation. The Lisbon Treaty holds some key conditions for further integration. The level of integration of police cooperation in the EU is measured by analysing institutional power, the regulatory framework and transnational professionalism. Despite a positive score on each of these levels, member states remain caught between national sovereignty and solidarity. As a consequence, they face an implementation gap and have not embedded European police cooperation in their domestic systems. Building on the pro-integrative moves that have been introduced by virtue of the Lisbon Treaty, improved governance and deeper integration can be achieved by means of more active parliamentary involvement, independent police oversight (both at European and at the national level), the mainstreaming of cooperation mechanisms and a systematic Europe-wide cultivation of police professionalism. Within the realm of internal security cooperation in the EU, a concerted effort is required which demands close consultation between relevant institutional actors and the professional actors in the member states. Adapted from the source document.