Policing Cooperation Across Borders—Comparative Perspectives on Law Enforcement Within the EU and Australia

This book provides new insights into police cooperation from a comparative socio-legal perspective. It presents a broad analysis of comparable police cooperation strategies in two systems: the EU and Australia. Drawing on interviews with practitioners in the EU and Australia this book highlights a number of areas where the EU can be compared to a federal system and addresses the advantages and disadvantages of being a Union or a federation of states with a view to police cooperation practice. Particular topics addressed are the evolution of legal frameworks regulating police cooperation, informal cooperation strategies, Joint Investigation Teams, Europol and regional cooperation.

Saskia Hufnagel is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) and a qualified German legal practitioner and accredited specialist in criminal law. Her research focuses on a variety of socio-legal and security related topics such as comparative criminal and constitutional law, regulation of police cooperation techniques and emergency law. She has published on these and related areas.