Community Policing
Introduction
Community policing is a strategy that promotes the use of partnerships with the public and police to work together. In order to solve problems and it uses techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. Collaborative partnerships between law enforcement agencies, individuals, and other organizations, they serve will help in the development of solutions and increase trust in the police. When policing was first introduced it was based on a hierarchical and its backbone built on a strict militaristic structure, with very distinct lines of command and control. Past models of policing caused mistrust to develop between …show more content…
These past practices aided in the adoption and the creation of community-based policing. Most agencies commonly used this effective model today. Earlier models created a stigma that police were known to abuse their powers and were aggressive. Because the only time police were seen is when they were in the line of duty. Police had to start by gaining the trust they once had, back from the communities they policed by being positively and actively in the community. Sir Robert peel’s seventh principle, “the police are the public and the public are the police”. (Smith & Alpert, …show more content…
As noted by Whitelaw and Parent (2014), the philosophy of community policing “is based on the premise that both the police and the community must work together as equal partners to identify, prioritize, and solve contemporary problems such as crime, drugs, fear of crime, social and physical disorder, and overall neighbourhood decay with the goal of improving the overall quality of life in the area” (p. 59). It has been said that nothing's constant except change. Organizations will have to change. Those who are in management positions needed to become leaders rather than managers, encouraging input from those from they supervise on important decisions. They also will have to let go of some traditional supervisory practices serving more as models and mentors. Frontline officers will be given new responsibility, becoming more self-supervising and self-motivated. Permanent shifts and areas are assigned, allowing officers and supervisors to develop in-depth knowledge of the induvial, businesses and organizations in the neighborhoods where they
Introduction
Community policing is a strategy that promotes the use of partnerships with the public and police to work together. In order to solve problems and it uses techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. Collaborative partnerships between law enforcement agencies, individuals, and other organizations, they serve will help in the development of solutions and increase trust in the police. When policing was first introduced it was based on a hierarchical and its backbone built on a strict militaristic structure, with very distinct lines of command and control. Past models of policing caused mistrust to develop between …show more content…
These past practices aided in the adoption and the creation of community-based policing. Most agencies commonly used this effective model today. Earlier models created a stigma that police were known to abuse their powers and were aggressive. Because the only time police were seen is when they were in the line of duty. Police had to start by gaining the trust they once had, back from the communities they policed by being positively and actively in the community. Sir Robert peel’s seventh principle, “the police are the public and the public are the police”. (Smith & Alpert, …show more content…
As noted by Whitelaw and Parent (2014), the philosophy of community policing “is based on the premise that both the police and the community must work together as equal partners to identify, prioritize, and solve contemporary problems such as crime, drugs, fear of crime, social and physical disorder, and overall neighbourhood decay with the goal of improving the overall quality of life in the area” (p. 59). It has been said that nothing's constant except change. Organizations will have to change. Those who are in management positions needed to become leaders rather than managers, encouraging input from those from they supervise on important decisions. They also will have to let go of some traditional supervisory practices serving more as models and mentors. Frontline officers will be given new responsibility, becoming more self-supervising and self-motivated. Permanent shifts and areas are assigned, allowing officers and supervisors to develop in-depth knowledge of the induvial, businesses and organizations in the neighborhoods where they