Browsing by Author "Tesfay Kassa"

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    Relationship between Federal Police and State Police Commissions Under Ethiopian Federalism: Policy and Practice
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-11) Tesfay Kassa; Mehari Taddele(PhD)
    The paper examines the relationship between Federal Police and State Police Commissions from the perspective of the federal system, analyses the legislative and assesses the practices so far. The study revealed that the relations between the Federal Police and state police commissions are not constitutionally guided and managed. With regard to the institutional and formal set-up of the Joint Council is established with a mandate to strengthening relation between Federal and state Police Commissions. The paper argues that Joint Council has performed different tasks in areas of crime prevention, investigation and other capacity buildings. From the research, it is clear that despite such tasks performed by the council, several concerns are raised. Most of these concerns contravene the principle of federalism. Furthermore, it has an implication of centralization of police or it implies that the Federal Police Commission is superior of all state police commissions which are incompatible with the very principle of federalism.