Introduction - what is policing?; "repression" (detective work) - who investigates crime and how?; what are the police judiciare (and its Portuguese, Spanish, Belgian, Italian equivalents); Kripol, the BKA and how do they differ from the English CID?; "ordre public" (uniform work) and legitimacy - who are the street police/the police in uniform and what are they there for?; ancillary functions - what else do the police do?; cross-border co-operation - how is freedom of movement affecting all this?; conclusion - prospects and challenges on the road to harmonization.
