While weighing the options of a centralized, decentralized, or  half-centralized policing system, police forces also swing between policing styles  of legalistic and service, reactive and proactive. Cultural values play a role therein.  Police from Different Policing Systems and Cultures will take you on a voyage to  discover how different policing systems and cultural values are impacting the  professionalism, accountability, and legitimacy of police forces, what public  security issues are inflicting people somewhere in the world, and what unprecedented challenges police forces are facing. It also explores the linkage  between culture and policing in the hope of contributing to a better understanding  of different policing systems and cultures worldwide.

Jianlan Xia is a lecturer in Foreign-related Policing and a researcher at the  Area and International Studies Research Center of the Beijing Police College. She  specializes in applied linguistics, cross-cultural communication, international  police cooperation, and police translation and interpreting studies.