The duty of every Police official is to uphold the security of the nation by combating crime and to ensure that others are in compliance of rules, regulations and governmental laws. Below is a ranking of the top 10 countries with best police forces, in relation to their performance and efforts as well as security measures and systems they have in place to effectively enforce the law. Each Police force will be ranked according to their training and performance thus far.
The 10 Best Police Forces in the World:
10. Italy
“Bella Italia” – Beautiful Italy. “Rome was not built in one day”. Besides the richness of a variety of delicious foods, romantic sunsets of Capri, the golden voice of Luciano Pavarotti and other classical music legends, the sound of the Opera and mandolins all around that fill the atmosphere and the gifts of ancient history that the mangnifico Italia boasts ,Italy is also home to THE ITALIAN MAFIA. The Sicilian Mafia dates back to the mid-Eighteenth Century as a protection system that was initially intended and traditionally formed to do whatever bad things necessary for the good reasons as acclaimed by ancient Italians throughout the years.
The birth of the Mafia in the era of the Eighteenth Century was established and maintained for the pure purpose of providing protection to peasants that even the best police forces could not offer due to abiding to laws of the justice system under oath. As the number of criminals and the concept of organized crime increased, it spread rapidly like wild fire and eventually reached a global scale by the Nineteenth Century and still continues today. Once there was an organized crime revolution, the organized crime world became independently controlled and commanded by Crime bosses who earned their way up their criminal careers and climbed the highest rankings of the Mafia structure which is respectively known as “THE DON” . As the decades passed, Italy has become infested with power driven and ruthless Mafia Bosses which created a worldwide misperception that “all Italian businessmen are Linked to the Mafia or some criminal organization” due to its notorious existence.
The Italian National Police, regarded as one of the best police forces can be rendered on of the best trained law enforcements in the world due to their exclusive establishment and effective implementation if the “Italian Anti- Mafia” division which is responsible for the arrests of 2 of the most dangerous and violent Mafia Bosses who were hidden in the depths of barren mountains. Every officer around the world or anybody that rats out the Mafia in general has common knowledge that by the privilege of their power, influence and ranking system, they can conduct ruthless acts in order to attain almost anything of desire which also includes the successful annihilation of enemies and innocent families as a revenge retaliation.
The Anti –Mafia police force of Italy has conducted their duties in such a professional, intelligent and extremely cautious manner that each of the families belonging to the officers who conducted the search and arrests of the Mafia men is still safe and alive, despite that their entire organized crime syndicate hasn’t been brought to justice with other ‘Capos – Soldiers of the Mafia still at large. We can accolade this division of the Italian Police as a whole with utter excellence in carrying out their jobs with such cautiousness in this specific case as not any department would have been able to pull this off successfully without endangering the lives of their loved ones in the process and the fact of them having a specially trained force that’s an exclusive ‘Anti-Mafia division’ of their departments shows something which can only be given full credit to Italians.
The Italian Police Force, often counted among the best police forces, consists of a staggering amount of approximately 300 000 police officials split amongst 5 National forces and 5 Local Police forces being relatively the highest number of police officials in the European Union. Having such a large distribution of Police officers in their respective areas definitely ensures optimal safety. One of the best police forces in the world, the Italian Police Force has also been gifted by their Trademark world class brand, Lamborghini. Two specially designed police cars were given to Italy’s police force which can reach speeds up to 350KM/h .In general, a special drivers test is required to prove that a driver is competent enough to sit behind the steering wheel of a car that can reach speeds as a jet on the road. Only two vehicles were given to the police of Italy which meant that the two drivers who were lucky enough to drive it ,had to have been highly trained before being granted permission to race off, a competitive advantage in terms of high speed car chases and in this case to catch a Mafia Don on the run.
9. China
The People’s Armed Police Force
At number nine in our list of top 10 countries with best police forces, its the China. “All Chinese are Kung-Fu masters” – So it’s spoken around the world of people and their experiences of who was unfortunate enough to be entangled in the wrath of their master art of using body sequence moves in order to disable an opponent or to manipulate an opponent until eventually attacking their vital body parts to completely paralyze them. This is an ancient method that’s now been adapted in the process of Police Training in China as well. The Chinese have always had an extremely amazing and extraordinary manner of actions and speech as well as their less frequent use for weapons in even a dangerous situation which is particularly why we can gladly say that they are highly trained in aspects of hand to hand combat where most officers aren’t and with a bonus to top it up, they are also trained in advanced weaponry handling too.
For many years the average China man has been underestimated and perceived wrongly, discriminated against and rendered somewhat incompetent but this isn’t the case in the Chinese Police Force due to their intensive hard to watch training which they seem to endure so effortlessly purely because their mind and body has been conditioned to react immediately upon provocation with appropriate counter measures. The Police of China, counted among the best police forces live up to their uniform and more especially do what they were trained to do as well as with innovatively adding to their trained methods of combating crime. Discipline here is everything!
The tactical operations of the Chinese Police force is among the world’s best police forces and that of a rather unique and effective as compared to some of the rest as there’s creativity along with the exact or similar amount of brashness that a police officer is supposed to have in them. Having such a great amount of disciplined instilled within Chinese Police Officers from young ensures accuracy in their shooting, skill in their hand to hand combats instead of meaningless rage that could get one killed, stance, stature, maintaining of stealth which can help them in more advanced cases of where silence would be the key code to end violence, also helps give officers the fortitude of maintaining discretion to handle situations according to the extent of its magnitude. Doing things this way in China ensures that the policing system is upheld as they were trained to do and also so that their duties are conducted by the books and within the constituted law.
8. Germany
BMI, Federal Police
One of the best police forces in the world, the BMI of Germany however is something else entirely and represents the somewhat elite trained force system which grants the allowance of controlling their own units which spans over 16 states with another 2 Federal Law enforcement agencies by their side all in joint venture as one large battalion to combat crime, just that it’s in different units, each with a separate assigned task force, jurisdiction and expertise in specific fields. With the employment of more than 40 000 highly trained, skilled and dedicated police officers within their own respective departments, this ensures the widespread safety of Germans while having so many officers on and off duty and ever so ready to perform by doing their jobs according to their police legislation that allows any official of the BMI to use whatever granted means to conduct their duties without having special permissions from superiors to engage as compared to some Police laws of other countries.
Germany has a special established University called ‘Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei’ (German Police University) which is the official and designated place at which all police newbies will undergo intensive studying and educational training before becoming physical on-the-field training which is quiet intense as every other force. The greatness of having people who want to become police officers in Germany is each candidate will be given the exact same knowledge of the justice system and serves as a regulatory education set for all new police officers instead of having each individual to study something that they may not be required to know in the BMI.
Just like the influence of the Mafia in gods hand crafted Italy, The Hell applauded NAZI has also taken ownership of Germany and has carved a name for itself in the history books as being one of the most ‘Extremely racist movements and rebellion parties that the world has ever known. During the Midst of World War I, Adolf Hitler, One of the world’s most infamous Tyrants immediately positioned himself as a Leader that was bred to bring about change in Germany and to be the driving force behind strengthening every weak area of the World War I era.
By successfully gaining the trust and political influence of Germany at the time ,he was able to mastermind and to yield the German police station under the stranglehold of his command by creating what appeared to be a ‘land of make believe’ to his followers. Using this to the utmost of his advantage, it wasn’t long till Hitler managed to take over the main parts of Germany which was soon to be turned into his personal Hell in which he was the commanding Lucifer. Nobody saw it coming but it was taken by force by this stage. The German police, regarded as one of the best police forces have now finally broken free from the Nazi’s wrath and is independent in all aspects of maintaining law and order throughout the decades since the Nazi came into power during the Holocaust Years. The German police force can be regarded as one of the rollers in the world due to their achievement of breaking free from one of history’s most powerful crime leaders like Adolf Hitler.
7. Australia
AFP
Australia isn’t only known for the pristine tourist attractions such as: The Sydney Opera House ever since the AFP is making a powerful attraction of its own. By reputability and by doing everything the force of its power as a governmental structure to uphold the law to the highest of its standards. The AFP is often regarded as one of the best police forces in the world.
The AFP is responsible for the seizure of one of the biggest drug bust in the nation’s history, if not the only one Australia can trace back to. An estimated amount of more than a Billion Australian Dollars of Crystal Meth has been seized and was sure to spark the attention of the media, blasting headlines of the capture. I think we can dub this to be Australian Federal Police “Checkmate! “; Be careful the AFP is watching your every move since they have an astounding reputation for being on top of things in terms of criminal justice. Only a highly trained force could have been able to carry out an investigation of this spider-webbed nature without arousing the suspicions of and alarming the people they were after. Criminal justice cannot be enforced by on police department or country alone, regardless of their advancement in intelligence or technology.
Not just one of the best police forces, the AFP for being one of the first police forces to practically, literally and effectively enforce and practice gender equity. They plan to have more women in their police force in the next decade to come. It is expected that more than half of sworn by oath women will fill the force. We can consider this a highly effective way of combating crime, since women are more prone to being mugged, molested, and victim to other heinous crimes. It helps tremendously if they are the law enforcers and given titles of authority. This way they will be trained in self-defense and to use the justice system to help other women too. The training and recruitment of more women into the Force will keep more women out of danger from the crimes of the streets.
6. USA
NYPD, LAPD, CHP
Besides known for their worst brutality, American police forces are by the way among the best police forces. They are no doubt one of the highly trained forces in world, with a countless amount of backup and rescue mediums as well as advanced missionary systems based across the country. It’s almost as though, they are unbeatable in terms of their style of policing.
In the United States, there are several police departments. However the NYPD (New York Police Department) , LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department), CHP (California Highway Patrol), are the localized and standard force. They rushes to the rescue of what can be referred to as the everyday crimes that American citizens are committers or victims to.
Although, local police departments of the U.S are notoriously known for their violent brutality acts for no reason as their methods of apprehension are of an extremely brash nature. But NYPD is considered one of the best police forces in the world. Their success rate of crime prevention and law enforcement is outstanding.
5. Japan
Japanese National police
The police force of Japan is trained in a similar way as the United States Military. Both, Japan and US having the best police forces. Japan has the highest training institute for leaders that traces back to the 60s’ when things were not at its justified stages in terms of politics etc. You can be sure that the retired police officers of that time have been trained in the force in a very hard and harsh manner, which ensures that if they were the trainers for the younger, they would have most probably been trained in the exact same manner where discipline and honor-ability are the frontline principals.
The structure of their police training is regarded as one of the ultimate most intense, versatile, and flexible. It cover almost every known aspect to crime prevention or law enforcement.
How the “average Joe” became one of the highly trained police forces in the world? In the National Police of Japan, men and women are trained equally in the following respective divisions.
- General affairs division: which deals with accounting and student affairs,
- Police Administration Training Division: which trains each and every new recruit for the mass and secure handling of paperwork, emergency calls, etc.
- General Safety Police Training Division: responsible for making sure normal safety precautions are adhered to with regards to the public,
- Community Police Training division: which is there for the support of the people who needs them most,
- Criminal Investigation Training Division: that investigates so thoroughly in almost every type of case that you can imagine that an offender in those particular investigation cases would be dammed if they were caught at the amount of solid evidence of conviction this division would have gathered well before the capture,
- Organized Crime Training Division: that is constantly on the watch of Mafia infamous Asian Mafia crime organization , “known to the world by their deadly reputation as ,The Yakuza” which requires a bunch of merciless and fearless set of trained officers for the job or else you can consider your career as a police officer in Japan, ending before it had the full chance to start, if not the end of your life.
- Traffic police Training Division: can gain one of the greatest respects as compared to the traffic police of any other country outside of Asia and America due to their population of more than a 100 million people of Japan alone which means the high rate of road rage, accidents, congestion and collateral pileup of vehicles that the Traffic division of Japan are trained to deal with.
- The Security Police Division: are one of the main enforces of the law as they would deal with extreme hostile situations, bank robberies and may even lose their lives in the process,
- Instructor Training division: is another respectable department of the force,
- Physical Training Division: whom is most important as the tactically trained officers of Japan would have been reliant of them in order to have been the outcome of tough, and physically strengthened and competent officers of the law just as doctors, lawyers, policemen, accountants and almost every high ranked profile member of society went through unappreciated knowledge and departed valuable education from Teachers or Lecturers.
These strategically division are responsible for handling every issue that they were trained for in their department.
There is also a designated Research and Training Center that conducts financial crime investigations that stump down on money laundering and fraudulent cases etc. Japanese Police also trains their geeks into the Cybercrime department to handle numerous amount of digital crimes such as; Child pornography, cyber-bullying, downloading of illegal and un-authorized copyright content, hacking and the countless amount of things that is against the law.
Besides being toughest, the Japanese police forc is one of the highly trained best police forces in the world. Due to their admirable ability to go beyond the call of duty, by implementing a crisis management system for Victims of natural disasters such as; Earthquakes or havoc situations such as; Police riots etc. Japanese police also have one of the most extraordinary but highly effective system of using ‘Kobans’ which are small sub offices spread vastly around Japan that connect callers to the nearest and most convenient security measure available.
4. France
National Police of France
At number four in our list is National Police of France. NPF is ranked among the best police forces, as well as other special forces in the world. France would have seen the largest bloodbath of its history. The common police officer isn’t trained enough to disarm a bomb and to be responsible for things that could mean the tearing up of an entire city and being responsible for Hundreds, if not thousands of lives which is why France planned in advance when setting up their law enforcement squads according to their training.
The Gendarmerie Nationale is Frances’ ace card or cannonball force when faced with matters of destruction like this for an instance. They are the dedicated Army force of France and is under the Ministry of defense. Called upon to do what they do best in their respective tactical units on somewhat extreme cases. Such as: Terrorist attacks and other major situations that France may face at any given time.They’re responsible of providing air support, ground support with tactical trained teams setup and put in position to move in on command. And, also to conduct certain land operations to smoother down the resistance etc. Being on stand-by gives them the ultimate advantage which means they are ready to counter strike with a wealth of defense mechanisms, skills and training in their favor and by the country’s request but under the command and authorized ‘go ahead’ by the French Ministry of Defense.
The municipal Police Forces of France are traditionally trained to deal with the more minor crimes such as: petty theft, mugging, handling of missing persons cases, vehicle accidents, speeding fines etc. However each team in their policing system is responsible for ensuring that the country’s glory is withheld on a daily basis. Apart from the mentioned police units: The Gendarmerie Nationale and Municipal Police, France also has it’s very own tactical force which is responsible for doing things slightly differently than the two units. Frances very own tactical force is a differently trained force altogether and serves as a reserved back-up unit to assist by request.
3. Netherlands
Royal Marechaussee, The Gendarmerie
The dutch police is extremely well trained and disciplined. They are the nicest police ever and work incredibly together. The structure of the Dutch police is amazing in terms of their strategically placed and positioned units. These units consists primarily of The Central Regional Police Services. Each of these units are driven under the command of the Dutch Commissioner. Proper functioning and maintained order of the troops are taken by the responsible duty of the Netherlands Minister of Justice. Officers in these units are deployed and expected to be on standby to conduct normal day to day duties and tasks that even the most of world’s best police forces are faced with.
Dutch police is particularly to the greatest of their skills. They are specifically trained to handle most types of situations. The united front of their ability, to work as a team, reaching the same goal is admirable. Their visibility on the streets is somewhat prominent, and cover most parts of the Netherlands. Their prime objective is to be on spot, keeping an eye for anything suspicious, and to prevent it before it happens.
2. Canada
RCMP
At second position in our list of countries with best police forces – the RCMP. Even though Canada may not experience war driven situations as other countries may, but there police training is still above general standards. They prepares them for those unpredictable situations as Paris experienced a few years back. The unpredictability of life is amidst which is why the Canadian Police have put things in motion, preparing them in advance. They developed training colleges which enables officers to undergo advanced and specialized development programs that prepares them for the reality rather than the “made up stories’ of rose petals in the police force. Having things laid out to the trainee officers about what’s expected of them in the field honestly, creates a realistic approach at which they can adapt and implement when doing their duties rather than being stuck when the time comes.
Besides having the privileges of educational training, the RCMP also has to undergo practical _ just as every other best police forces globally. Their field training starts with a slight twist, while senior police are conducting their duties. They gain experience as it is on the ‘on the job side’, which prepares them better in the future rather than giving them a set example or scenario.
The RCMP has been providing exceptional law enforcement service for more than 100 years. To become the part of RCMP, one should must be a highly motivated who possess strong leadership abilities, from a wide range of backgrounds. The RCMP has a worldwide reputation for it’s highly trained team. It’s one of the finest police force in the world. Due to this high flying reputation, the RCMP has sure landed them as being a highly respected police force worldwide. It’s training for law enforcement have been so up to standard that other law enforcement entities often request the training of the RCMP in their departments, which shows a strong sense of leadership in their work.
1. England
Metropolitan (Scotland Yard Police)
The United Kingdom police force is at top on our list. Called one of the best police forces, The Metropolitan has truly gone beyond their expected duties to launch a campaign to raise awareness of the police emergency number. By launching this number awareness campaign, it enables more and more people to be knowledgeable of the emergency services that’s built to protect the nation as well as how to get into contact with them when in need of assistance. The Scotland Yard Police of the UK, otherwise known as one of the best police forces, has also been spread out in all of the main cities and also cater for various parts of the outskirts too. In this way, police protection is everywhere.
The model of policing in England is still as it was, when it was founded by sir Robert Peel. The UK police practice flexible Policing which simply means policing by the consent of the nation. In the United Kingdome, people are the police and the police are the people. Here, the police officials are more accountable than other police services around the world. Also, they are not a paramilitary force or a political force. It is believed that they are the most transparent police force in the world. The UK police publish results of crime recording and how they will address particular issues. They are also watched over and investigated when certain incidents occur by the IPCC – the independent police complaints commission.
United Kingdom’s Police recruitment system can be considered as one of the neatest in terms of quality standards. It ensure that ever new police officer is at their best after making it and undergoing intensive training. Discipline carried out and encouraged during this training is similar to that of several tactical trained forces we are aware of. The UK’s police forces are world’s highly trained and best police forces. Some of the best police forces around the world including Australia, New Zealand and Canada are loosely based around the British policing model and that’s why they are so good.