
Malin Åkerström
Professor emerita

Project Turnstone: Successful Collaboration and Collaboration Obstacles in Police, Border, and Coast Guard Cooperation
Projekt Turnstone: Framgångsrik samverkan och hinder under samarbete mellan polis, gräns och kustbevakning
Author
Summary, in English
the different border agencies and qualitative interviews. A total of 73 interviews were conducted with border officers, police officers, border guards, and coast guard officers from the participating organizations. The interviewed officers view Project Turnstone as a rare opportunity for close, personal cooperation through which officers can build strong police, border, and coast guard networks and increase and strengthen previous cooperative practices. This cooperation is possible due to colocation and interpersonal interactions in which officers can learn about each other’s organizational
practices, establish trust, and achieve the same goals. On the other hand, language and communication difficulties, differences in national legislation, and fear that the opportunities for joint action weeks and close cooperation will diminish after the termination of Project Turnstone were raised as obstacles to collaboration. Nonetheless, interviewed officers shared a common sense of purpose and motivation and viewed close interpersonal cooperation as the best way of protecting the EU and Schengen area from criminality in the Baltic Sea area.
Department/s
- Sociology
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Publication/Series
Network for Research in Criminology and Deviant Behavior
Full text
Document type
Book
Publisher
Lund University (Media-Tryck)
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
Keywords
- border guards
- Project Turnstone
- Europe
- EU borders
- Baltic Sea area
- successful cooperation
- collaboration obstacles
- projekt Turnstone
- piirivalvurid
- Euroopa
- EL-i piirid
- Läänemere piirkond
- edukas koostöö
- koostööraskused
- Turnstone-hanke
- rannikkovartiosto
- Eurooppa
- EU:n rajat
- Itämeren alue
- onnistunut yhteistyö
- yhteistyön esteet
- Projekts "Turnstone"
- robežsardze
- Eiropa
- ES robežas
- Baltijas jūras reģions
- jūras reģions
- veiksmīga sadarbība
- šķēršļi sadarbībai
- Projektas „Turnstone“
- pasieniečiai
- Europa
- ES sienos
- Baltijos jūros regionas
- sėkmingas bendradarbiavimas
- bendradarbiavimo iššūkiai
- gränsbevakning
- EU:s gränser
- Östersjöområdet
- framgångsrik samverkan
- samverkansproblem
Status
Published
Research group
- Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1104-1153
- LUSADG/KVN--02/2--SE