ABSTRACT
This chapter uses an ethnographic case study of police–bouncer collaboration in Aarhus, Denmark, to explore how multifaceted forms of partnering and information exchange influence the production of nightlife territoriality. It highlights the role of private security in public order maintenance and police-led gang suppression. It discusses some of the moral and legal implications of information sharing within plural policing. In order to promote a more encompassing and processual approach to the study of plural policing partnering and information exchange, the chapter uses the concept of 'assemblage', defined as a collective whose properties emerge from the relations between the heterogeneous components that make up the assemblage. The chapter demonstrates how roles as knowledge brokers and knowledge receivers are in flux in the Aarhus policing assemblage, and how private entrepreneurialism influences the flow of information, giving rise to alternative forms of partnering. Police–bouncer relationships are also characterized by competition and power struggles.
