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    In his book Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development, Paul J. Vanderwood discusses the Rural Police, also known as Rurales, of Mexico. Vanderwood traces the conception of the Mexican police force to the presidency of Benito Juárez’s. Likewise, Vanderwood explains Juárez’s motives behind the creation of the police force, despite Juárez’s liberal ideology and faith in federalism. Vanderwood also discusses the transformation of the Mexican police force during Porfirio Díaz’s dictatorship. Disorder and Progress emphasizes the roles of disorder and order in Mexico during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vanderwood’s emphasis on the roles of disorder and order helps to illuminate how Mexican leaders, especially Díaz, exploited the rural police force for political gain. To add, the focus on disorder and order manifest the role that the Rurales played in the modernization of Mexico. After all, the Rurales played a vital role in creating the illusion of stability, which in turn encouraged foreign investment in Mexico. Noticeably, the roles of the Rurales were altered depending on who the leader of Mexico was and what the motives of that leader were. The Rural Police Force in Mexico was established on May 6, 1861 during Benito Juárez’s presidency. Juárez formed the Rural Police force in order to centralize the government’s power. During this time, political disorder was prevalent. According to Vanderwood, Juárez and the Liberals began to “despise chaos…

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    Introduction The Office for National Statistics stated on 9th May 2013 that The CSEW shows a clear pattern of change over the last 30 years and that incidents of crime are now 53% lower than they were in 1995. The statistics from the Crime Survey for England and Wales 2013 show us that despite the current level of funding cuts from central government, the police service are continuing to tackle crime and partner agencies are supporting the trend for reduced reoffending. Within the Cumbria…

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    Like Huntington, Janowitz focuses on the officer corps and the concept of professionalism. Janowitz proclaims a more pragmatic approach. He contends that politicization of the military is unavoidable in respect of the Soviet threat because of international and domestic politics. Furthermore, he postulates, that in the nuclear age the military must be able to provide strategic deterrence and be prepared for a limited war. This is Janowitz concept of the constabulary force: "the military…

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    Throughout the Netherlands this regional police officers are known for having many different units so they cover a lot of ground in patrolling their country. “Thirdly the next police force is called National Constabulary which is known as the KLPD” (2014). “This force has many duties which proceed as a national crime squad, special investigative, special intervention, and etc.” (n.p., 2014). “The KLP focuses on road issues; waterways, railways, and terrorism units are applied due to active…

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    “Victims who are assessed as at high-risk of serious harm or murder attracted a high level of multi-agency support...” yet until they are deemed as such, the police did nothing as far as giving the cases priority, and by then it was too late. In one of the testimonies provided by a domestically abused family, they claimed that “‘They didn’t take it seriously until something happened in public… not taking it seriously until he hit me in a club in the middle of everybody… It was no different to…

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    Jack Molchan Mr. Coyle English 415 8 March 2016 A Battle of Colors Come Out, Ye Black and Tans is an Irish song of rebellion. The song’s lyrics refer to the British paramilitary police force officially called the Royal Irish Constabulary Special Reserve. The Black and Tans were to be a force of temporary constables recruited to aid the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War for Independence. Most were former British soldiers in the fields of Flanders during WWI who could not find work…

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    powerful that he could wish a family to suffer and they would. The dictator of a weak Dominican Republic, mass murderer, and god like leader. Nevertheless, it could be said that he worked for this, and earned the power, as cruel as he might have been. Because of this he became a very important character to Junot Diaz’s book ‘’The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,’’ and to comprehend the novel better we need to get a better understanding of it. First we have to look at what brought him to become…

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    people that are in the prisons as well as there being limited space for beds and limited beds for sleeping on. There is also a severe lack of medical attention for many of the prisoners as there is a lack of medical personnel for the number of prisoners that are overcrowding many of the prisons. Overall the prisons are nor seen as terribly I disrepair as they are often adequate per human rights standards. The only problem being the overcrowding which has caused the other problems previously…

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    Before Royal Malaysia Police were introduced, a police force has been existed since Malacca Sultanate which known as Temenggung and Hulubalang, or royal warriors in order to build jails, arrest criminals and implement sentences. The police force establishment has no exact time because its services were very important back then. Only on 24th July 1958, the King of Malaysia (Tunku Abdul Rahman Ibni al-Marhum Tuanku Muhammad) bestowed the title Royal to the Malayan Federation of Malayan Police…

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    Eli Hunt: A Short Story

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    It hadn’t been easy coming back to London, especially after poor Eli had sold his house to Marcus Henwood in exchange for our passage to America. Still, Eli was a likeable chap, and it hadn’t taken him too long to relight old fires, and shore up friendships with forgotten acquaintances. Since we had left England, the police force had been expanding. Years earlier, Eli had started out as a sort of retriever of criminals, for lack of a better term. Perhaps bounty hunter would be more appropriate?…

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