Surfing the crime net: the European Police Research & Science Database (CEPOL-eDOC) as a new source for police resea
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SU RFI N G THE C R I M E NE T: T H E EU RO PE A N P O L I C E RE SE ARCH AN D S C I E N C E DATAB ASE ( C E P O L- eD O C ) A S A N E W SOURCE FOR POLICE RESEARCH AN D P O L I C E S C I E NCE IN E U RO PE De tle f N oga la 1 c /o CEPOL Secretariat, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire RG27 0JW, UK Correspondence: Detlef Nogala, c /o CEPOL Secretariat, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire RG27 0JW, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
A b stra ct The author describes the new European Police Research & Science Database for which he is responsible, in the wider context of police cooperation throughout Europe and the importance of police science/studies as a basis for police education and training and improving policing.
Key wo rds CEPOL; eDoc; police science; police research; European police college Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2006) 8, 260–270. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150030
Europea nization of highe r p ol ice ed u c ation
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t a time when the occurrence and control of (certain) crime is increasingly discussed in cross-border terms and addressed within an international political and administrative environment, the idea of bringing together the education and training of high-ranking senior police officers across Europe by adding a further tier was ripe for
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administrative action. Based on the structures and experiences with forerunner organizations like the Association of European Police Academies (AEPC)2 and the Middle European Police Academy (MEPA)3, and in a way as a logical process of Europeanization, the European Council agreed at its meeting in Tampere on 15 and 16 October 1999, to establish CEPOL4 as a network of national police training institutes on the level of European Union (EU) member states, and this was formalized on 22 December 2000. Since 2001 CEPOL has been running training courses on European policing as a cooperative network made up of the national training institutes for senior police officers. A Secretariat for providing organizational and administrative support was established and has been permanently located in Bramshill, UK, since 2004. Since January 2006 CEPOL has been formally established as new European agency,5 financed from the Commission’s budget. The affairs of the European Police College are overseen by a Governing Board being set up by the directors of the national police training institutes. The main objective of the European Police College is to develop a joint approach to the main problems encountered in the fight against crime and crime prevention through training courses and seminars by helping qualified police officers from different EU countries to learn more about each other’s national police systems, and about cross-border police cooperation in Europe.6 Apart from the national police training institutes of the 25 EU member states, CEPOL also cooperates with corresponding colleges and academies from
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