The last pillar of policing is research. When it comes to various issues of policing, crime prevention, crime control, and similar topics, it would be easy to list pages and pages of questions that should be addressed empirically. With regard to education, research is the vehicle of expanding the knowledge base of police education. Research findings that find their way into practice through education and training are probably one of the most powerful agents of change in policing. Of course, if we in the Central and Eastern European countries want to be equal partners with other parts of the world, then we should not only disseminate other people's knowledge, but actively participate in creating it.
Nobody has an exclusive right to train, educate, and research others.
We can all learn from each other, assuming that we are all willing to admit that in certain matters others might have more answers, resources, knowledge, or ideas, and assuming that we are all willing to change when change appears reasonable. In this paper, I tried to show that cooperation, training, education, and research have the power to reshape the police and policing in Central and Eastern Europe. I also tried to show that Central and Eastern European police officers, trainers, educators, and researchers, should play an active role as equal partners in this process.