Policing the Caribbean: Transnational Security Cooperation in Practice
Ben Bowling Oxford/New York,Oxford University Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-957769-9
By PETER D FRASER
This admirable book is a pioneering examination of the workings of the upper echelons of the policing family of the Commonwealth Caribbean in a comparative fashion. It raises a number of profound questions about the focus and effectiveness of much of this activity. This is not surprising as its central theme is the transformation of the police forces by the war on drugs. A police family has been created: services, the Coastguard and Customs chiefly, move from their original roles, fishery protection and search and rescue for the former and revenue protection for the latter, to policing the transit of cocaine through the Caribbean.
Bowling sets out his research questions and methods and the general security situation of the Caribbean in his first two chapters.
