Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy

Conor O’Reilly is Associate Professor in Transnational Crime and Security at the School of Law, University of Leeds. His research interests focus upon the transnational dynamics of crime, policing and security. He has published widely on these and related research themes in leading journals, including: British Journal of Criminology; Crime, Law and Social Change; International Political Sociology; Police Quarterly; and Theoretical Criminology. He is also author of the forthcoming monograph, Policing Global Risks: The Transnational Security Consultancy Industry. He has worked on a range of international research projects, including the COPP-LAB project on Lusophone policing, and is currently leading a three-year project on kidnapping in Mexico.

Introduction: Policing and the Lusophone Community Across Time and Space
Conor O’Reilly (University of Leeds)

PART ONE: THE COLONIAL POLICING MISSION
1. Colonial Policing and the Portuguese Empire (c.1870-1961)
Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves (University Institute of Lisbon) and Rita Ávila Cachado (University Institute of Lisbon)

2. The Military and the (Colonial) Policing of Mainland Portugal (1850–1910)
Diego Palacios Cerezales (University of Stirling)

3. Militarism in the São Paulo Police Force (1868-1924)
André Rosemberg (Universidade Estadual Paulista ‘Júlio de Mesquita Filho’)

Comment: The Portuguese Colonial Policing Mission in Comparative Perspective
Richard S. Hill (Victoria University of Wellington)

PART TWO: POLICING AT THE END OF EMPIRE
4. PIDE’s Racial Strategy in Angola (1957-1961)
Fernando Tavares Pimenta (New University of Lisbon)

5. Knowing ‘Mozambican Islam’: The Confidential Questionnaire on Islam and Colonial Governance during the Liberation War
Sandra Araújo (New University of Lisbon)

6. Intelligence-centric Counterinsurgency as Late Colonial Policing: Comparing Portugal with Britain and France
Bruno Cardoso Reis (University of Lisbon)

Comment: Reflections on Portuguese Late Colonial Policing
Martin Thomas (University of Exeter)

PART THREE: POSTCOLONIAL, TRANSITIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL POLICING DYNAMICS
7. Post-War Police Reform in Mozambique: The Case of Community Policing
Helene Maria Kyed (Danish Institute for International Studies)

8. Transformation of Macau Policing: From a Portuguese Colony to China’s SAR
Lawrence K.K. Ho (The Hong Kong Institute of Education) and Agnes I.F. Lam (University of Macau)

9. Faint Echoes of Portugal but Strong Accents of Indonesia: Hidden Influences on Police Development in Timor-Leste
Gordon Peake (Australian National University)

10. Branding Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Model: A Silver Bullet for the ‘Planet of Slums’?
Conor O’Reilly (University of Leeds)

Comment: "Never Mind the Similarities, Focus on the Differences": Imposition, Imitation and Intransigence in Post-colonial Global Policing Reform
Andrew Goldsmith (Flinders University)