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Working Relationships Between the Police and Other Agencies - A Study in the Netherlands and Great Britain

NCJ Number
98145
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1985) Pages: 26-50
Author(s)
G Horstmann
Date Published
1985
Length
25 pages
Annotation
A study of Groningen in the Netherlands and Exeter in England indicates that workload and community pressure are the most common motivations for police to coordinate with members of other social service agencies.
Abstract
These factors outweigh department policy, organization factors, and structural factors. In both communities, police initiate such coordination far more often than members of other social service agencies initiate coordination with the police. (Publisher abstract)