- Accountability and control of professionalism (also democratic policing, policing and democratic governance)
- Changes and challenges in contemporary policing (e.g. culture of policing, plural policing, traffic policing, coast guard, policing borders of the EU, post-socialist and developing countries, private policing, concepts of policing and security, zero tolerance policing, authoritarian policing, communitarian policing)
- Community policing (e.g. local security networks, partnership, police-citizens cooperation, local provision of safety/security, reduction of fear of crime/feelings of insecurity)
- Comparative policing (e.g. history of policing, developments in policing, new paradigms in contemporary policing)
- Crime prevention (e.g. controlling crime, crime control and crime prevention networks, crime control effectiveness)
- Criminal investigation (e.g. organised and international drug related crime, forensic sciences/criminalistics, criminal investigation and the role of other criminal justice institutions, criminal profiling, investigation of everyday criminality)
- Developments in criminal justice studies, criminology and police studies (e.g. research methodology in police studies)
- Impact of policing (e.g. crime rates, feelings of security, net-widening)
- Innovations in policing (e.g. intelligence-led policing, knowledge-based policing, modern technologies, crime mapping, policing the Internet)
- Organisational, managerial, strategic and operational issues in policing (e.g. politics of policing, selection and training for professional policing, police powers, use of force, gender issues in policing)
- Police co-operation (e.g. international, state and regional co-operation)
- Police like activities in other social control institutions (e.g. prison officers, traffic wardens)
- Police powers (e.g. law-enforcement, abuse of power, deviance, misconduct, lack of integrity, corruption, structural crimes)
- Policing multiethnic/multicultural communities (e.g. encounters with the public and ethnic profiling/discrimination)
- Policing specific social groups (e.g. suspects/victims/witnesses: the elderly, the marginalised, the youth and children, the disabled)
- Policing terrorism (e.g. post 9/11 policing, controlling terrorist threats)
- Psychology and policing (e.g. attitudes, behaviour and other social-psychological issues, stress, attitudes towards victims, suspects and other police clients)
- War and post-war policing (e.g. police as peacemakers/peacekeepers, policing post-war societies, post conflict policing, police-military cooperation)
- Any other topic related to police and policing.