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Every book starts with an idea. Our idea stemmed from the need to reflect on how the subject of our academic inquiry—police and security agencies—have responded to the COVID-19 crisis.
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The CoroPol Monitor was to provide Dutch law enforcement agencies brief information (‘headlines’) on crime, (plural) policing and public order elsewhere in Europe and the world, specifically during the stages of a lockdown. Besides, the monitor was meant to indicate what to expect and what to prepare for in The Netherlands and to offer an action perspective on policing the pandemic in this country. CoroPol originates from the words “Corona and Policing”.
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However, two months prior to “Liberation Day” on 19 July 2021, former Prime Minister Johnson of Great Britain expressed the following words: “And it is thanks to your effort and sacrifice in stopping the spread of this disease that the death rate is coming down and hospital admissions are coming down. And thanks to you we have protected our NHS and saved many thousands of lives” (Prime Minister’s Office., & The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, 2020).
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CoroPol comes from the words “Corona and Policing”.
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Working for privately owned research agencies.
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Den Boer, M., Bervoets, E., Hak, L. (2023). Plural Policing, Security and the COVID-19 Crisis: An Introduction to Comparative European Perspectives. In: Den Boer, M., Bervoets, E., Hak, L. (eds) Plural Policing, Security and the COVID Crisis. Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19177-0_1
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