"This book draws together research on the performance of police functions and analyses their common functions in their various European guises."--BOOK JACKET. "The book explains how the police forces fulfil their role, what that role currently is in the various European countries, and how they came to be so arranged."--BOOK JACKET. "Policing in Europe: Uniform in Diversity is significant not just for undergraduates and taught-postgraduate students on social science courses, but also for police officers on distance-learning degrees and officers in training at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.