Policing Interwar Europe: Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918-40 Book

Acknowledgements     viii
Notes on Contributors     ix
Introduction: Policing Interwar Europe   Gerald Blaney, Jr     1
The Difficult Construction of a 'Republican' Police: The Experience of the French Third Republic   Jean-Marc Berliere     14
A Republican police?     14
Caught between the 'municipal principle' and the temptation to centralize     16
Defending the Republic     19
Keeping a Republican order or Republican order-keeping?     20
The only police force a democracy can own up to?     22
The police and the Third Republic: a case of successful acculturation?     24
Keeping Order in Republican Spain, 1931-36   Gerald Blaney, Jr     31
Assessing Republican power     32
Reforming the police, 1931-33     36
A Republican failure?: the thorny issue of police violence     42
'Rectifying' reforms: the governments of the Center-Right     49
Swimming against the current?: the Popular Front, February-July 1936     52
Conclusion     57
Prussian Police Reform and the Modernization of the Academy Classroom: The Advent of the German Police Training Film, 1919-20   Sara F. Hall     69
Reform through re-education     70
A partisan journalistic view     73
In the classroom     75
Introducing the police training film     77
Criminal investigation and technology     78
Standardization and mobility     82
The latest and the best     84
Conclusion     86
Guardians of the Republic? Portugal's Guarda Nacional Republicana and the Politicians during the 'New Old Republic', 1919-22   Stewart Lloyd-Jones   Diego Palacios Cerezales     90
The creation of the GNR     91
Portugal's civil war and its consequences     95
Aftermath     103
Conclusion     104
Mussolini's Policemen, 1922-43   Jonathan Dunnage     112
The creation of a police force at the service of the Fascist regime     114
The 'Fascistization' of policemen     120
The case of Riccardo Secreti     126
Conclusion     130
Police, Republic and Nation: The Czechoslovak State Police and the Building of a Multinational Democracy, 1918-25   Samuel Ronsin     136
The State Police and the new Republic, October 1918-March 1920     138
Creating a 'national police': the deployment of the State Police     141
Recruitment practices of the State Police      145
Conclusion     154
Police and Policing under the Second Polish Republic, 1918-39   Andrzej Misiuk     159
The troubled birth of the Polish Republic, 1918-26     160
The Sanacja regime, 1926-39     165
Epilogue: defending Poland     169
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Revisited: Policing Interwar Bulgaria   Dimcho N. Dimov     172
Historical background     172
War crises, internal security and public order     175
The rule of the democratic alliance, 1923-31     178
The People's Bloc government, 1931-34     181
The coup d'etat of 19 May 1934     185
The 'monarcho-fascist' rule of Boris III, 1935-39     186
Conclusion     188
'Turbulent Times': The Dutch Police Between the Two World Wars   Jos Smeets     192
The threat of revolution and the Dutch police     192
Building barricades against revolution: the Central Intelligence Bureau, the Politietroepen and the National Reserve     196
The debate over the nature and the reform of the Dutch police     198
The economic crisis of 1929 and its repercussions     202
The mutiny on the HMS Seven Provinces and the Jordaan uprising of 1934     203
The decree on the State Police and the Donner Commission     205
The Oss affair of 1938     207
Conclusion     211
Traffic, Telephones and Police Boxes: The Deterioration of Beat Policing in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester Between the World Wars   Joanne Klein     215
Pressures on beat policing before the First World War     216
Police strikes of 1918 and 1919     217
The 1919 Police Act     219
Traffic burdens     220
Rising public expectations of public services     223
New laws and paperwork     224
Telephones and police boxes     225
Declining police morale     228
New internal police rivalries     229
Index     237