Monty0112

I can only say what he said to us. You didn't have to vote my post down for believing an American professor. I'm only trying to have a decent conversation.

Easy, I didn't mention any Hollywood crap like you so elegantly put it. It isn't the university that teaches us about the USA system. We are tought by guest professors from the country itself when dealing with foreign policing models. The one from the USA mentioned problems like jurisdiction, too much use of guns and tasers, sentencing problems,etc. Believe me when I say that Belgium is crap compared to the USA model but you do have to face the fact that the US criminal justice system is far from perfect. I'd love to have a comparison and discuss the pros and cons but that would just be plain boring for most of the people on this forum ;-)

I'm in my last year of bachelor in criminology at the university in Belgium Doing my internship this year with the federal police. Then one year of master to go and then off to the police academy! Hope to become a homicide detective. In my opinion, and I do know a lot of police models since I learn all about them, the UK model is one of the best in the world. The only let down there is that the regular officers can't carry weapons. The USA model is also nice, but the problem there is that they are too fond of gun use and the jurisdiction isn't always clear. You have federal(FBI), state, local,... Btw, for you USA boys out there. Know that the Belgian police used to be trained by Americans in the past. For example our former drug unit which was absorbed later on in the federal police was thought by your DEA officers ;-) The only thing Belgium can be proud of in police matters is that we invented the dog units/K9 units. For the non-believers: "Official use of police dogs was recognized as being of value on the European Continent as early as 1859, with the Belgium Police in Ghent using dogs to officially patrol with the night shift."(Wiki) What would be your ideal police model in the world? And try to be reasonable ;-)