COMPOSITE - Comparative Police Studies in the EU

COMPOSITE – short for “Comparative Police Studies in the EU” – is a research project that looks into large scale change processes in police forces all over Europe. New types of crime, open borders, new technologies, changing public expectations and tighter financial resources are directly or indirectly affecting police forces in most European countries. These new demands require modern police forces that are managed efficiently, are capable of acting flexibly and have the means to cooperate with forces in other countries. Many police forces respond by introducing ambitious change programmes, aiming at modernising and rationalising the way policing is conducted. As such the face of European policing is slowly changing. COMPOSITE is funded over a period of four years out of the FP 7 framework programme of the European Union. Its consortium consists of 15 partners from ten European countries. It cooperates with police forces in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Official project start was August 1, 2010. The project coordinator is Dr. Gabriele Jacobs of Erasmus University Rotterdam. The dissemination coordinator is Dr. Jochen Christe-Zeyse of Universityof Applied Sciences of the State Police of Brandenburg.