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This article presents an examination of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) with a focus on the policing area of order-maintenance. It argues that while much scholarly attention has been given to the EU's role in crime-fighting, less has been said about its increasing involvement with order-maintenance, which is a central element of policing. EULEX, which is the EU's largest civilian mission to date, has been involved with a range of executive tasks such as riot control as well as the reforming and training of local police in Kosovo; this article argues that the Mission's activities contribute to all of the functions that comprise the policing area of order-maintenance. The EU's increasingly comprehensive involvement with policing activities is shown to significantly contribute to the Union's ambitions as a security actor. However, the case of EULEX demonstrates that only some aspects of the EU's aims as an actor in policing have been fully achieved in practice. Adapted from the source document.

This article provides an assessment of Europol as a comprehensive policing actor with a particular focus on crime-fighting. It argues that Europol has moved beyond some of the early obstacles it faced regarding the lack of trust and confidence from the police forces of the member states and the limitations that those issues had caused. The agency now makes contributions in all of the broad areas associated with international crime-fighting. As a result, it can be argued that Europol's mandate and activities include the range of police functions comprised by policing in the area of crime-fighting. However, although the EU's promotion of Europol and its increased mandate have given the agency significant potential to fulfil these functions in a deep and complete way, in practice this has been achieved only in some areas. Adapted from the source document.