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In this contribution, we investigate a partnership that has emerged between the public prosecutor’s office, the police, the tax office, local government and the public utility company to fight organized crime and its subversive effects in cities and regions in the Netherlands. The question is how these parties have overcome hurdles for cooperation in relation to the diagnosis and definition of the problem, the formulation of goals, and the development and implementation of an innovative approach. And, more in particular, how in the specific case of illegal marijuana production in residential areas public professionals have engaged with a private company and how they together have sought to enlist the support and capacity of not only their own organizations, but also (law-abiding) local citizens, therewith further broadening the partnership. To describe and explain the process of building the partnership, we make use of theories on collaborative governance and multidisciplinary teaming. We conclude that the literature on multidisciplinary teaming is helpful in analyzing and better understanding the collaborative challenges that manifest at the level of teams.
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Power utilities could measure power usage per housing block, not per individual unit.
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This and the following paragraph are based on the case description in Waardenburg et al. (2019b).
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Groenleer, M., Cels, S., de Jong, J. (2020). Safety in the City: Building Strategic Partnerships in the Fight Against Organized Crime. In: van Montfort, C., Michels, A. (eds) Partnerships for Livable Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40060-6_11
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