ABSTRACT
From 1945 to 1993, the Dutch police was composed of the gemeentepolitie (municipal police) and the rijkspolitie (state police). In 1993, a new Police Act was introduced and accepted by the Dutch Parliament. From then on, the Dutch police was organized into 25 regional forces and one national force (Korps Landelijke Politiediensten, Klpd) that supports the regional forces while also assuming several important national-level tasks. As a consequence of the reform, the size of the smallest police force went up from maybe 30 police ocers to approximately 700. e largest police force (Amsterdam-Amstelland) has about 7000 ocers.
