Government Official around 1900-1910 Academic Help

Can you help me understand this History question?

…Imagine that you are a government official around 1900-1910, tasked with reviewing a variety of police forces in the United States and Europe throughout the nineteenth century. Create a report where you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of specific police forces, including their mission, legal basis, recruitment and training, police culture, and other factors in their successes and failures in maintaining law and order. Include your analysis of patterns you find, and remember to evaluate these forces within their specific nineteenth-century historical context.

There were several reading assignments, I will attach along with the essay format, that will help support this writing assignment.