The World Police Encyclopedia is the only existing reference work to systematically survey all the police systems in all the countries of the world (the 189 UN

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Contains entries that examine the police forces and correctional systems of 198 countries, arranged alphabetically by country name; and features twenty articles

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A collection of articles that present information on police agencies and law-enforcement authorities in United States history.