World Police Encyclopedia

With the necessity to protect the public from the increasingly wide threats of terrorism and organized crime, policing throughout the world is rapidly changing from a local to a global activity as well as a responsibility that must be shared between nations. The two volume World Police Encyclopedia is a systematic survey of the police systems of each of the member nations of the United Nations as well as Switzerland and Taiwan, together with Interpol, Europol, Civpol, and the European Union. The reader can research how various nations educate and train police, how police systems are financed and administered, what...