It is one of the first 83 departments made during the French revolution.

They are perceived as unlikely to take an authoritarian line, yet they have remained politically uncritical of Government policy, during the attacks on their departments made by the media during the child abuse, and transnational adoption controversies.

As for the East Hampton Police Department, an investigation by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Public Integrity Bureau conducted in 1994 found insufficient evidence to support the allegations of misconduct within the department made by Mr. Cooper and Mr. Jones.

In the Top 10 of Dutch (business) economics department made by the department itself, the Economics Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam is ranked as follows: