Working title	Belongs to topic	Summary	Status
Preface, Foreword, In Memory of Sven, Why This Book?	Setting the context	Since four and a half decades I am concerned with policing. Half of the time in a national police career, rising through the ranks and performing many different specific functions related to policing.  Half of the time I have been doing something different. I have brought my policing expertise into international policy implemented by the United Nations or the European Union, or directly into German foreign policy. Efforts to contribute to help others.  I am setting the stage for the essays, and I describe the context of these essays in a larger writing effort. Whilst my blog has been visible for many years, background writing on “After The Storm – Who Am I?” has not. Whilst this big theme has seen substantial progress, I have reached the stage where I describe my path into a professional career, and why, in this part of my writing. “essays on policing” pick up on those aspects. I weave my personal experiences over time into the statements on principles for “ethical policing”. I point towards the connections with my planned “essays on trauma & reconciliation”, and how this all makes sense within the “mothership project”, which I call “After The Storm – Who am I?”	Zero draft ready (Feb 23)
On integrity	Essay 1 – Becoming Part Of The System	Reflections on the path from the outside to the inside of a system. They focus on the important role of education. This within a context of policing based on values, and it’s purpose. Ethical policing meaning that values reflect, in the case of policing which I argue, the protection of human and citizen’s rights, the rule of law, and democratic values. The essay also includes my first personal experiences navigating through danger zones, with invisible threats from mental corruption, with the red hot zone of danger, and the institutional and managerial safeguards necessary for any individual to navigate into and through a system with minimum damage to oneself, others, and the system. The essay reflects on the inevitability of making mistakes, learning from them. It also provides examples for what can happen when young police officers are being confronted with situations beyond their control. A police organization investing into a long-term commitment, ensuring values and staff adhering to them is providing profound advantages.  Towards the end of the essay I reflect briefly on what this meant in my international policing work, both from a perspective of qualifying international police in peace operations, and for any assistance to efforts supporting capacity building of domestic police. This is a conduit into the second essay, in which I will use my international experiences for a deeper dive, using country situation examples and explaining the intention of the Strategic Guidance Framework of international policing in peace operations.	Zero-draft ready (Feb 23)
On integrity	Essay 2 – Safeguarding integrity	The national vantage point from where to look beyond the crucial role of education and training within a context of ethical policing, ensuring the upholding of a rule of law, and human rights. This is about integrity. Education and training goes hand-in-glove with institutional development, management on personal and organizational levels, and leadership. These essential components of a system are deeply interconnected. The more emphasis on values, and the protection of civilians and a rule of law, the more relevant sufficient education becomes. This then needs to be put into the larger context of mitigation measures of a policing system through which the lawful and professional discharge of policing is maintained, and both the benefactors from policing (the citizens) and the agents of policing (the police officers) do benefit. This essay has a focus on integrity issues throughout my time between 1979 and 2000. My experience with moving through the ranks of the German version of this system is necessary to set the stage for the subsequent international experiences I made. From an integrity point of view, and from the perspective of ethical policing, this will be essay 3.from where to look beyond the crucial role of education and training within a context of ethical policing, ensuring the upholding of a rule of law, and human rights. This is about integrity. Education and training goes hand-in-glove with institutional development, management on personal and organizational levels, and leadership. These essential components of a system are deeply interconnected. The more emphasis on values, and the protection of civilians and a rule of law, the more relevant sufficient education becomes. This then needs to be put into the larger context of mitigation measures of a policing system through which the lawful and professional discharge of policing is maintained, and both the benefactors from policing (the citizens) and the agents of policing (the police officers) do benefit. This essay has a focus on integrity issues throughout my time between 1979 and 2000. My experience with moving through the ranks of the German version of this system is necessary to set the stage for the subsequent international experiences I made. From an integrity point of view, and from the perspective of ethical policing, this will be essay 3.	Zero-draft ready (Feb 2023)
On integrity	Essay 3 – Integrity of police organisations	Why is integrity of organisations tasked with policing so important?  Policing is one of the most visible expressions of the power exercised by the State. The underlying values and the constitutional foundations from which the State and its instruments of governance derive their legitimacy are demonstrated in policing. When policing is meant to protect human rights, to contribute to security and order, and is part of a rule of law, the integrity of organisations tasked with policing sits front and center.  Maintaining organizational integrity of policing is extremely relevant within any system of governance. But in democracies it goes far beyond the resulting ability of the State to exercise its power. Like, an autocratic system of governance must ge able to rely on its instruments of power, and the control over them. In democratically constituted systems integrity however transcends this element of reliability for those in power: In democratic systems police integrity is a key element, aside others, for maintaining the fundamental trust of every citizen into the instruments of lawmaking, governance, and justice that citizens have elected, and mandated, for their protection, security, and justice needs. Attacking the firewall of integrity is a key objective for those who seek to operate outside the lawful boundaries of a system, whether it is organized crime, political extremism, or anti-constitutional forces/movements seeking to overturn a system. The essay begins with the question what organisational integrity entails, and where the notion is different from individual integrity, which includes ethical or moral dimensions. Then, integrity is examined for several scenarios: (1) The system is subjected to an internal stress test through adversaries or enemies of the given constitutional order; (2) The system is performing against adversaries including organized crime and corruption; (3) The system is subject to reform efforts; (4) The system has been destroyed, or become part of the problem, in situations of conflict and war, and there are considerations within the international community to assist in the (re)establishment of a policing system.	Writing has begun (Feb 2023) – This is a challenging one…