ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an interpretation of the key patterns of governance, policy and politics arising out of this European world by distinguishing different types of metropolitan policing 'regime'. The concept of a European world of metropolitan policing captures the particularity and urgency of the challenges currently confronting the politics of security in European city-regions better than the conventional framing of security issues as problems of international relations. The chapter presents a diagnostic tool for distinguishing between regimes that seek to maintain, develop, reform or transform conventional criminal justice and public order agendas on the basis of the 'rules of meaning and membership' that integrate various policing actors into governing arrangements. it applies the diagnostic tool to case studies of metropolitan policing, and discussed their contradictions and 'policing dialectics' in terms of future scenarios and further implications for the comparative analysis of metropolitan policing.
