NCJ Number
131900
Journal
Policing and Society Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Dated: (1990) Pages: 57-76
Date Published
1990
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This article examines the research conducted in 1988 on behalf of a committee charged by two police ministers in The Netherlands with the task of making a proposal for the reallocation of the police.
Abstract
The first outcomes of the distribution model were unacceptable. Straightforward implementation of the results would have meant the State police handing over approximately 20-25 percent of its personnel power to the municipal police forces and that most municipal police forces in the smaller municipalities would be reduced by 10-75 percent. Negotiations, redefinitions of the original problem, and efforts to amend the allocation model followed. Some sort of allocation policy emerged in the end. Subsequent political events showed that the research and the committee's activities failed to solve the allocation problem but was important in setting the problem of police reorganization. What began as a technical operation in an effort to conserve the police system was transformed into what it was not intended to become: a political issue. 43 references (Author abstract modified)