Trust in International Police and Justice Cooperation

The use of extra-territorial intelligence is growing among security, border, and public agencies and internationally, rapidly evolving efforts to tackle transnational crime entail the exchange of intelligence across jurisdictions and state borders as well as the ‘linking’ of law enforcement operations. This book provides a number of different perspectives from across Europe, Australasia, and Canada to examine recent cooperation experiences and the challenges faced in practice.

The book brings together scholars from a range of legal and criminological fields to examine the legal imperatives and social parameters that shape international police and justice cooperation and highlights the importance of both trust and clear legal rules to ensure effective cooperation. It focuses on areas where cooperation is now mandated, but where significant issues are raised, including the international and regional methods of information and intelligence exchange and challenges to human rights protection; the coordination of international and regional exchange of evidence, such as forensic bioinformation; police cooperation in international investigations and the added value of formalising investigative strategies across jurisdictions regionally and internationally and the operation, accountability and legitimacy of organisations and institutions of ‘cooperation’ in law enforcement and specific international policing ‘missions’.

1. Introduction

Saskia Hufnagel and Carole McCartney

Part I: The Concept of Trust in International Police Cooperation

2. Establishing Trust Despite the Risk? An Analysis of the Need for Trust in Police Cooperation

Ludo Block

3. Police Cooperation in Europe, China and Australia: Does Trust Depend on the Political System?

Saskia Hufnagel

4. International Policing Missions: Establishing Trustworthy Policing in Low-trust Environments

Andrew Goldsmith and Vandra Harris

Part II: Trust and International Cooperation Agencies

5. Trusted Travellers: Managing Mobility in Challenging Times

Monica den Boer

6. Brand Interpol

James Sheptycki

7. The Evolving Role of Europol in the Fight Against Serious Crime: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

Celine Cocq and Francesca Galli

8. Building Trust and More: The Importance of Police Cooperation Networks in the European Union

Toine Spapens

9. Trust and the International Exchange of Forensic Information

Carole McCartney

Part III: Case Studies of Trust in International Cooperation

10. Law Enforcement Cooperation between New Zealand and the United States: Serving the Internet 'Pirate' Kim Dotcom Up on a 'Silver Platter'?

Neil Boister

11. Transnational Policing and Its Contexts: Flexibility and (Dis)trust

Chantal Perras

12. Intelligence-led Use of International Forensic Exchange Channels

Denise Sulca