Book excerpt: Excerpt from European Police Systems The Object of this book, the third of a series pub lished by the Bureau of Social Hygiene, is to describe and to discuss critically the essential features of the police systems of the larger European municipalities. The material presented was drawn from extended per sonal inquiry and Observation in the chief cities of Eng land, Scotland, France, Germany, austria-hungary, Italy, Holland and Belgium.1 To the investigation of the subject and the preparation of the book almost two years were devoted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.