This article progresses in the following way. Section 1 discusses the special andSpecific role that police play in post-conflict transitions. I argue that the police provide theOnly viable long-term solution to the security dilemmas that face armed groups attemptingTo move from war to peace. However, their capacity to play this role depends upon anEffective reform process that establishes some minimally legitimate police force. I buildOn sociological and criminological literature to argue that building police legitimacy is aFundamentally political process. In other words, perceptions of police legitimacy are notOnly shaped by the particular structures, capacities and procedures associated with thePolice themselves as the existing literature emphasizes, but also by the distribution ofPolitical power embodied in the state whose laws the police enforce.
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