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@Oliver Schick
One principal requirement for anarchy is ethical behaviour. Nobody's perfect and it wouldn't eliminate disorder completely, but on a positive view of human nature, which the absence of force itself would foster, disorder can be limited to a manageable extent without requiring a police force.
The best police is an individual's conscience. You may be able to get away with shoplifting in the sense that no-one sees you and no-one is able to deduce that it must have been you, but you know you did it. Can you police yourself?
The reasons why people transgress are complex, but two principal causes are being forced to do things we don't want to do, and living in badly-connected, anonymous lots rather than communities with intact social relationships. Anarchism usually aims at improving on both problems.
Again, nothing can fully eliminate all problems, but there's definitely room for improvement this way.