VO as an Alternative to Hierarchy in the Dutch Police Sector

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Author(s): Peter Groenewegen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)and F. Pieter Wagenaar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 7
Source title: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal)and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch245

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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The Dutch police system is neither centralized nor fully decentralized, as it consists of “regions” bigger than the municipalities, but smaller than most provinces. These regions are to a large degree autonomous. Such autonomy implies that regional police forces could not communicate with each other in the recent past, as their communication systems differed. They were also unable to look into each other’s files, as national police registries were extremely rare. Fragmentation of this kind has seriously hindered cooperation in the recent past.

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