RT Article
T1 Great expectations? Assessing the creation of national police organisations in Scotland and the Netherlands
JF International journal of police science & management
VO 21
IS 2
SP 101
OP 107
A1 Terpstra, Jan
A2 Fyfe, Nick R.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1789546656
AB Against a background of recent structural reforms to police organisations in northern and western Europe, this paper examines the experiences of Scotland and the Netherlands where national police forces were established in 2013. Taking a comparative perspective, an analysis of the police reform proposals is followed by a review of the arguments for reform, the challenges of implementation and the findings emerging from the evaluations of the police reforms in each country. The paper concludes by drawing out the contrast between the ‘great expectations’ of the two police reforms articulated by the governments and the realities of bringing about rapid and large-scale organisational change, arguing that institutionalist perspectives on police reform have much to offer in making sense of the challenges of the police reform process.
K1 |gNetherlands
K1 Police
K1 Evaluation
K1 Police Reform
K1 Scotland
DO 10.1177/1461355719842310