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The Institute and its foundation, Fundación Caminos, has identified a need for the training of engineers to take on the responsibilities as directors of large projects, sectors or geographical areas, which subsequently requires enhanced competence in management (business and project), commercial skills, knowledge of public policy (the main source of activity in our sector), as well as reinforcing transversal skills and competences (communication, negotiation, leadership, teamwork...). This article outlines the academic aspects of this Masters degree and its international organization in conjunction with the École des Ponts ParisTech and the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, as co-managing universities, with the collaboration of the Spanish National Institute of Public Administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How can a specialized public organization, of which the operational sector has been brutally fragmented and privatized, maintain its unity and publicness? The paper looks at how the British Transport Police (BTP) has adapted to the fragmentation and privatization of British Rail since 1993. The fact that the BTP has remained public and national is all the more surprising since a return to the pre-World War II configuration, with each Train Operating Company (TOC) having and running its own police, could be technically envisaged. The answer to the initial question is quite simple. The police organization under examination has intelligently reinvented its publicness, with the negotiated assent of its referring political and economic authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ericson and Haggerty's book, Policing the Risk Society (1997), sets out to annul Bittner's classical, coercion-based reading of the police and replace it with a radically new paradigm that foregrounds the panoptical or knowledge work dimension of the police and its potential to serve the interests of non~police social-disciplinary institutions. In this article, we test this neo-Foucauldian paradigm on the basis of a body of research into road traffic policing. As a result, we observe that though non- police owner-managers of new risks challenge the societal immanence, centrality and publicness of police organizations, with time, these challenges fail. We therefore argue that Ericson and Haggerty `s notion of panoptical policing should be taken as a theoretical innovation, which, far from eliminating Bittner's paradigm, enhances it with a new force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vast majority of Anglo-American police and policing social studies illustrate, both theoretically and empirically, an a-statist, localist and, to a lesser extent, privatist organization. This article reconsiders this common perspective by exploring the socio-historical monographs of the California Highway Patrol. This inquiry reveals how a state can utilize a new and marginal policing objective—road risk and criminality—to develop a powerful and relatively autonomous police organization, which, despite its name, exists more as a police on the road than a police of the road, and plays a vital role in the Californian police system. Surprisingly, the California Highway Patrol embodies the model of a state institution much more common in “Older Europe” than in America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]