Eurostat defines police officers as personnel in public agencies whose principal functions are the prevention, detection and investigation of crime and the apprehension of alleged offenders. Data concerning support staff (secretaries, clerks, etc.) are excluded.
What does this mean, less cops less crime?
I was wondering why I barely see police in Denmark, guess this is why
Well obviously it’s not direct affiliation with amount of crime. Nordics ranking high in happiness, low homelessness and smaller income/wealth difference between the rich and the poor may have more to do with need for less cops per capita.
Croatian number is high because of border police towards B&H and Serbia.
Portugal can into Balkans.
In Poland the number is low, because we only have one guy and one staircase to protect.
Finland’s number could soon be even lower, for the fourth year in a row they haven’t managed to fill all the 400 yearly student slots at the Police University College (poliisiammattikorkeakoulu). Today only 255 out of 400 were filled, over 5000 applicants.
Love how police forces in Bulgaria are basically a welfare program for guys who barely finished high school. It’s annoying how in Sofia you can’t walk 500m without seeing a middle aged officer with a belly that essentially makes him look like he’s pregnant. These guys just sit around all day, you could probably cut 15% and there would be little impact on crime (just an increase in unemployment)
Turkey as always
I can definitely say, I barely see police here in England. Maybe on a match day.
They’re also quite useless if you report non-violent crimes.
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Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/CRIM_JUST_JOB/default/table?lang=en
Eurostat defines police officers as personnel in public agencies whose principal functions are the prevention, detection and investigation of crime and the apprehension of alleged offenders. Data concerning support staff (secretaries, clerks, etc.) are excluded.
What does this mean, less cops less crime?
I was wondering why I barely see police in Denmark, guess this is why
Well obviously it’s not direct affiliation with amount of crime. Nordics ranking high in happiness, low homelessness and smaller income/wealth difference between the rich and the poor may have more to do with need for less cops per capita.
Croatian number is high because of border police towards B&H and Serbia.
Portugal can into Balkans.
In Poland the number is low, because we only have one guy and one staircase to protect.
Finland’s number could soon be even lower, for the fourth year in a row they haven’t managed to fill all the 400 yearly student slots at the Police University College (poliisiammattikorkeakoulu). Today only 255 out of 400 were filled, over 5000 applicants.
[There are not enough good applicants for the police academy](https://www-is-fi.translate.goog/tampereen-seutu/art-2000009243878.html?_x_tr_sl=fi&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp) (autotranslated article)
Love how police forces in Bulgaria are basically a welfare program for guys who barely finished high school. It’s annoying how in Sofia you can’t walk 500m without seeing a middle aged officer with a belly that essentially makes him look like he’s pregnant. These guys just sit around all day, you could probably cut 15% and there would be little impact on crime (just an increase in unemployment)
Turkey as always
I can definitely say, I barely see police here in England. Maybe on a match day.
They’re also quite useless if you report non-violent crimes.
” ci stanno le bocche da sfamare”