"Foreword" [2018] ELECD 1310; in den Boer, Monica (ed), "Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) xvi

Book Title: Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective

Editor(s): den Boer, Monica

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785369100

Section Title: Foreword

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Foreword
When publisher Stephen Gutierrez approached me with a request to edit a Research Handbook on Comparative Policing from a Legal Perspective in July 2015, my life looked entirely different. In the aftermath of my academic career throughout a succession of different positions, not least at the Police Academy of the Netherlands and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, I had started a small consultancy and research firm to do undertake a wide variety of assignments in international policing in security in Myanmar, China, the Caribbean and Europe. Also, I was getting my professional life back on the rails after I had made a difficult decision not to start a new career as Head of Department and Professor of Security Studies at what was formerly called the Department of Policing, Intelligence and Terrorism at Macquarie University in Sydney. Not going down that path opened up new avenues, including the purchase of a farmhouse with my beloved husband and allowing myself to present myself as a candidate for the Dutch Parliament. And so it happened: I was sworn in as Member of Parliament on 31 October 2017. Guess what? My portfolio includes national security and policing. It is with enormous pleasure and satisfaction that I can now close the door of this Handbook behind me. There are many people to whom I owe a great deal of thanks. To Stephen, my publisher, who continued to infuse me with courage and to keep the project going. To Saskia Hufnagel, who has rapidly matured into ...