Whether the I.M.F. is up to the task of policing its members and exerting influence on the most powerful ones remains far from clear.
The House ethics committee is openly — and foolishly — sniping at its newly appointed ally in the difficult task of policing members' behavior.
It removed from the Bank of England the task of policing the banking system following its perceived failures over Johnson Matthey Bank in the mid-1980s, BCCI and Barings.
They show that over time the Palestinian leadership has embraced the task of policing their people with more than warranted enthusiasm.
One Senate proposal would give the task of policing drug use to the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which pursued the cyclist Lance Armstrong until he finally admitted that drug-based enhancements had put him in the winner's circle.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said: "In the vital task of policing open societies, it is inevitable that you arrest more people than you charge and that sometimes suspicion will never be converted into evidence.
The United States has urged Germany and other NATO allies to transform their traditionally static armed forces into high-tech, mobile services that can better share the task of policing the world.
The CME Group, the for-profit exchange that also has the task of policing the futures markets, announced on Thursday that it would create a $100 million fund to protect farmers and ranchers from losing their funds in the event of another collapse like that of MF Global.
In a joint letter to their members, the New Jersey Association of School Administrators and the New Jersey School Boards Association said they would "urge state leaders to avoid overreaction through unnecessary and restrictive legislation and regulation," saying a new layer of oversight — 21 county superintendents — was up to the task of policing future contracts.
He added that politicians had made the task of policing flag demonstrations even more difficult because they had failed to reach agreement on the issue.
