"Marko", a patron of the Verona Café, is an officer in Travnik's newly integrated police force.
He added: "If we need people to work on 'sensitive high-profile cases' I would rather have the reassurance that these are fully integrated police officers, not staff answerable to G4S.
But efforts to integrate police departments, however successful, have not erased tensions between police departments and black communities.
Many variations on this theme can be developed, from elected police "commissioners" replacing police authorities (and preserving professional police executives) to an elected criminal justice commissioner who integrates police, prosecution, prison and probation in each area.
The MAP-provided command center in Zacapa acted as a model for integrating police and military security forces into a joint counterinsurgency apparatus which included "militarizing the police command structure and some of its conventional forces".
Police and young people haven't had the best relationship historically, and despite all the counselling and attempts to better integrate police into communities, there doesn't seem to be much promise of that trust growing any time soon.
The New Yorker's Michael Specter, examining the case of Portugal, has laid out the most thorough review I've seen of how a rational public-health policy, integrated with policing and a functioning justice system, can make progress.
He also foresees "common border controls and an integrated European police force".
Bobby Sands and his nine hunger striker colleagues did not starve themselves to death for the right to join an integrated Northern Ireland police service.
Integrating transport police with the rest of the police and the ambulance and fire services is, he says, "hugely complex .Preparation and defence can go only so far.
