COMMUNITY POLICING

Question 1

What is community policing?

Answer 1

is the police and the community working together to help solve mutually-defined problems through a deliberate effort aimed at reducing crime, violence, fear, insecurity and community decay.

Question 2

what are 3 benefits of community policing to the officer?

Answer 2

1. to provide a better place to work
2. it provides an opportunity to be creative and innovative.
3. it gives a change to make a “real difference” in the community.

Question 3

what are three benefits of community policing to the community?

Answer 3

1. it provides of a permanent solution to reoccurring problems.
2. it provides a better understanding of police capabilities and limitations.
3. it provides the community with a voice in how it would like to be policed.

Question 4

what are the five Cs of effective community policing?

Answer 4

communictation -is brain over brawn it requires work one-on-one with people from diverse background

collaboration - going beyound exchanging ideas to developing an action plan to solve specific issues in the community

care & concern -
insists that the best police officers are those that actually care. officers who show care and concern for the ppl in the community find meaning in their work. this help protect against cynicism and burnout.

creativity promotes experimentation as it challenges the community to work with the officer on new ways to deal with old problems