Top 10 Best Police Forces in The World

10-CHP – California Highway Patrol – USA

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a law enforcement agency of the U.S. state of California. The CHP is responsible to patrol all over California highways and also acts as the state police.

The California Highway Patrol is the largest state police force in the United States, with more than 11,000 employees, 7,500 of whom are sworn officers. This police force is equipped with the latest fleet of motorcycles, cars and aircrafts.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks the CHP became responsible for securing and patrolling a number of possible terrorist targets in California State. These sites include government buildings, nuclear power plants and important infrastructure sites. The CHP also uphold a SWAT team on 24‑hour standby to infiltrate any terrorist activity.

9-Royal Canadian Mounted Police – Canada

RCMP was founded in 1920, is both national and federal police force of Canada. Royal Canadian Mounted Police provides law enforcement not only at federal level but also covers 8 provinces of the Canada. As a Canada’s national police force, RCMP is responsible to enforce federal law in the whole country and maintain law and order situation. RCMP is equipped with latest tools to reduce crimes. So far their track record is good and they maintained a good law and order situation in Canada. Some details of RCMP are given below.

• Employees          28,640
• Vehicles               8,677
• Patrol vessels      5
• Fixed-wings        32
• Helicopters         10

8-Metropolitan Police Service- England

The Metropolitan Police Service (Met) was founded in 1829. The Metropolitan Police Service is responsible for law enforcement in Greater London. Met has a very good track records against criminals. Metropolitan Police employed 48,661 full-time staff. This included 31,478 on oath police officers, 13,350 non-police personnel, and 3,831 non-sworn police community support officers. This number excludes the 5,479 Special Constables, who work part-time. The annual budget of Met is Annual budget £4.1 billion. This makes Metropolitan Police largest in UK and one of the biggest in the world. Met obtained a fleet of 8000 vehicles used for different operations, including:

• Area cars
• Incident response vehicles (IRVs)
• Traffic units
• Protected carriers
• Control units
• Armoured multi-role vehicles
• General purpose vehicles
• Training vehicles
• Miscellaneous vehicles

7- AFP – Australian Federal Police – Australia

Australian Federal Police (AFP) was founded in 1979. AFW is responsible to implement criminal law in Australia and protect national interest in both Australia and overseas. There is a total of 6746 staff in the AFP. This figure does not include state police. Annual budget of AFP is AU$1.8 billion.

In a report leaked by wiki leaks Australian Federal Police was found involved in taking the services of a very infamous hacking company.

Australian Federal Police is very active and playing its role very effectively in maintaining peace in Australia. Currently AFP focusing on below areas.

• Organized crime
• Money laundering
• Illicit drug trafficking
• Organized people smuggling
• Serious major fraud against the Government
• Human Trafficking, including sexual servitude and human exploitation
• Preventing, countering and investigating terrorism
• Transnational and multi-jurisdictional crime
• High Tech Crime involving information technology and communications

6- NYPD – New York City Police Department – USA

• Employees: 51,000
• Annual budget: $4.8 billion

The New York City Police Department – NYPD or NYCPD, officially the New York City Police Department. NYPD was established in 1845 and is the largest municipal police force in the United States. NYPD covers area around 468.9 square miles (1,214 km2) under its jurisdiction. NYPD is responsible to protect population of 8,405,000 people.

Number of initiatives has been undertaken implemented. Since their implementation, a dramatic decrease of more than 80% in violent crime and a remarkable improvement in quality of life has resulted. The following initiatives represent some of the more noteworthy and successful programs instituted by the NYPD.

• The COMPSTAT (Crime Analysis) Process
• Twelve New Police Strategies
• Crime Reduction Principles
• Vehicle Safety Check Points
• Truancy Sweeps
• Surveillance Cameras
• Enhanced Intelligence Gathering
• Suspect Background Identification

NYPD also offer good salary package. Rookie cops in the NYPD paid a base salary of $41,975 per year. NYC operates nearly 27,000 vehicles. These include 8,839 Police cars, 11 police boats, 8 Helicopters 120 horses, 31 German Shepherds and 3 Bloodhounds Dogs.

5-The People’s Armed Police Force – China

The PAPF consists of the internal security force and various police forces. The border public security, firefighting and security guard forces are also components of the PAPF. The PAPF is charged with the fundamental task of safeguarding national security, maintaining social stability and ensuring that the people live and work in peace and contentment.  Total size of the Chinese police force is between 1.1 to 1.5 million. The main responsibility of People’s Armed Police Force is to maintain peace and eradicate criminals in the Chinese society. The most common crimes are money laundering, drug trafficking, corruption, human trafficking, fraud, and circulation of fake currencies.

It is estimated that around 1.5 billion people leave in china. It is not an easy task to maintain law and order situation among so many people. While stats show that china has been very successful so far to keep and maintain peace and criminal less society. In Crime Index for Country 2015 report china is at 74th position in the world, while United States is at 45th.

One thing that plays a very important role in maintaining the public order is a policy called Grid Management. An area would be divided into many blocks, in every area there would be lot of regular patrol police, surveillance cameras and employees from local committees. The objective is to solve the problem before it happen. Therefore, the society is under constant and tight control all the time, especially in big cities. Chinese government holds a very hawkish stance against crimes.

Crimes like rape, robbery would be severely punished, mostly death sentence. Most shockingly, Acts of Hooliganism were also considered as ‘serious’ crimes, such as senseless trouble making, mass fighting, women humiliating, and other acts that pose a threat to the public order.

4-New Zealand Police

Formed in 1840 New Zealand Police is responsible of authorizing criminal law, improving public safety, keeping up the order and maintaining the peace all through New Zealand. With a staff of 11,413 employees, New Zealand Police is the largest law enforcement agency in the country. From implementing criminal law to maintaining national security and traffic to commercial vehicle enforcement, New Zealand Police is responsible of everything.

New Zealand Police officers do not carry firearms during standard patrol. All police officers normally carry pepper spray and batons. New Zealand police is equipped with latest tools like teaser and drones to perform their duties more efficiently. We ranked the New Zealand police force at 4th in the list of best police forces in the world.

3- Federal Police – Austria

Austrian federal police was formed in 2005 by merging Gendarmerie (Formal unit of police). Police force Austria is responsible to maintain crimes, local security and border control. With an employee force of approximate 20,000, Federal policies performing really well. It is Federal police efforts that Austria came at 3rd place in the list of most peaceful countries in the world. Austria police is equipped with all the latest security weapons to overcome any situation.

2-Garda Síochána – Ireland

Garda Síochána , meaning “the Guardian of the Peace”, formed in 1922. More commonly referred to as the Gardaí, “Guardians”, is the police force of Ireland. The Mission of An Garda Síochána is working with Communities to protect and Serve. Some stats of Garda Síochána are given below.

• Employees          16,328
• Budget                 €1.426 billion

You will be surprised to know that only 20-25 % of Irish policeman know how to use firearm. Mostly Individual “Gardaí” has been equipped with ASP extendable batons and pepper spray. Despite all this Ireland has very low crime rate than United States.

1-Icelandic Police – Iceland

Icelandic Police formed in 1778 covering an area of 103,000km².

Well the most peaceful country in the world is Iceland and you will be surprised to know that Iceland police shot first time in 2013, on a man in the history of this country. The man first injured two police officers with his shotgun. National Police Commissioner instantly apologized to the man’s family publically.

Icelandic police officers carry only batons and pepper spray while on duty, they are trained in the use of firearms and are issued firearms in some situations.

The total population of Iceland is 329,100. One 3rd of its population carries firearms. The crime ratio in Iceland is very low. It is because of the strong welfare system and effectively maintaining law and order situations by Icelandic police.

On such amazing performance Icelandic police topped the list of best police forces in the world.