"The average police officer's operating environment emcompasses wide horizons: crime threats are increasingly global and most officers find themselves routinely dealing with international and transnational issues such as terrorism, e-crime, and human trafficking. Communication technologies allow many criminal acts to be perpetrated remotely, bestowing new international dimensions on previously local matters. Suspects and offenders move more freely around the globe and must be dealt with, both where they commit their crimes and in the places they flee. Officers occasionally find themselves operating on foreign soil, either as part of international investigations or assigned to one of the increasing number of police contingents working abroad, and they host colleagues from overseas working on investigations or visiting on study tours. Policing the world provides readers with a better understanding of the policing responses to these new dimensions of crime by exploring three key areas which will be of interest to students and practitioners of international and transnational policing: 1. Comparative policing and the creation of international "good practice." 2. Cooperative efforts to respond to emerging international and transnational crime threats. 3. Peace operations and capacity building in post-conflict and transitional societies"--Back cover