The latest installment in a series of insightful interviews with senior police executives worldwide, this book offers readers an unparalleled insider's perspective on police goals, practices, and management in a range of disparate environments. Conducted by a team of academic and practitioner experts, the interviews explore the executives backgrounds, education, and careers and provide insight on a number of topics relevant to their work, including their mission, strategy and tactics, and experience with democratic policing. The book also explores the relationship between police theory and practice, and the impact of globalization and the terror threat.

Carlos Mauricio Escobar, Special Prosecutor, Colombia. Sir Norman Bettison, Chief Constable, West Yorkshire Police, United Kingdom. Brigadier General Dr. J zsef Boda, Director General, Special Service for National Security (SSNS), Hungary. Charles H. Ramsey, Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, United States. Stephen Williams, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. Vernon White, Chief Constable, Ottawa Police Service, Canada. Ogbonnaya Onovo, Inspector General of Police, Nigeria. Todd Wuestewald, Chief, Broken Arrow Police Department, Oklahoma, United States. John Rizzo, Malta Police Commissioner. Tapio Huttunen, Chief of the Varsinais-Suomi Police Department, Finland. Lieutenant General Mzwandile Petros, Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Lothar Bergmann, Commissioner [Leitender Polizeidirektor], Home Office, Inspectorate of Constabulary, Hamburg, Germany. Conclusion. International Police Executive Symposium (IPES). Suggested Guidelines for Interviewers. Index.