EUPM case study I

This chapter explores the first case study of EUPM’s reforms, community-oriented policing. It hence tests the compliance framework detailed in the Introduction chapter on the empirical case of EUPM police reform. It first evaluates local police officers’ compliance with the reforms, separating compliance with implementation and continued adherence to the reform, to allow for a short- and a longer-term timeframe of analysis. It finds that legitimacy is a key mechanism for ensuring compliance particularly for the senior ranks of the local police. It confirms the mechanisms of the framework as coercion, reward-seeking, and legitimacy only influence compliance via the specified intervening variable.