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The term transnational policing entered into use in the mid-1990s as a description for forms of policing that transcended the boundaries of the sovereign nation state ( Sheptycki, 1995 ).

It is distinguished against the terms ‘ international policing ’ and ‘ global policing ’.

The former term would seem to indicate only those types of policing that are formally directed by institutions usually responsible for international affairs ( for example the State Department in the US, the Foreign Office in the UK, etc .).

The later term would seem to indicate only those forms of policing that are fully global in scope.