This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing conceptualising policing
broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local regional and
international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and
multifaceted endeavour scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed
across diverse sources. It examines how Pacific policing is shaped by changing state-society
relations in different national contexts and ongoing processes of globalisation. Particular
attention is given to the plural character of Pacific policing profound challenges of gender
equity changing dynamics of crime and the prominence of transnational policing in resource
and capacity constrained domestic environments. The authors draw on examples from across the
Pacific islands to provide a nuanced and contextualised account of policing in this socially
diverse and rapidly transforming region.
