Police personnel re‐allocation: The Dutch case

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In 1987 the two police ministers in The Netherlands charged a committee with the task of making a proposal for the re‐allocation of the police. Re‐allocation was to be merely a technical operation and not an occasion for a debate on the police organization. Re‐allocation became necessary because assumptions underlying the former allocation system had become obsolete. In 1988 extensive and unique research was carried out on behalf of the committee. The article deals with the research, research outcomes and the allocation model. As the outcomes of the model were unacceptable to the committee, negotiations, redefinitions of the original problem and amending the allocation model followed. In the end some sort of allocation policy emerged. Subsequent political events showed that the research and the committee's activities did not solve the allocation problem but was important in setting the problem of police re‐organization.

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