This article, empirical and descriptive in its nature, presents an overview of the Italian policing system and the context of policing in the northern region of Tuscan. Thereafter, we present the results obtained from a survey that was conducted among 1 520 police officers from this region. The survey tool combines the questionnaire designed by Weisburd et al. (2000), where the questions are aimed at common police organisational culture themes, and the questionnaire designed separately by Klockars et al. (1997) in order to assess the ethical position of police officers regarding 11 vignettes of derogatory conducts. The results from the Tuscan region are then compared to the two original US studies. This comparison yields to elements of what has been referred in the literature as a general police culture, as well as elements that tend to indicate dissimilarities that we attribute to important contextual differences in the policing systems of the two countries.