Plural Policing, Security and the COVID Crisis Comparative European Perspectives

“Throughout the book, different actors are discussed that play a certain part in policing the pandemic. …
The book Plural Policing, Security and the COVID Crisis: Comparative European Perspectives
discusses a highly relevant (and at the point of publishing under-researched) topic and provides lots of insights on how different countries approached the situation in the beginning stages of the pandemic.” (Yinthe Feys, European Journal of Policing Studies, Vol. 9 (1), 2026) 

Monica den Boer is Professor of Military Policing Operations at the Netherlands Defence Academy. Her primary research focus is on the evolution of military policing, as well as border policing, international policing, urban policing and the policing of organised crime and terrorism. She served as member of the Dutch national parliament from 2017 to 2020. Prior to this she worked in several academic and professional environments, including the Police Academy of the Netherlands and the VU University Amsterdam.

Eric Bervoets is a police scientist and criminologist. He has been active as a researcher since 1997. After a master's degree in public administration at Rotterdam Erasmus University, the Netherlands, Bervoets obtained his PhD in 2006 with a dissertation on policing troubled neighbourhoods. In 2020, he was appointed Research Fellow at the Netherlands Defence Academy.

Linda Hak obtained her BSc in Criminology at Erasmus University and a master’s degree in Legal Psychology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She served as a research intern at Bureau Bervoets and is employed as a detective assistant for the National Police of the Netherlands.