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

Question 5

what are the differences between reactive policing and proactive policing

Answer 5

reactive policing - is police action after receiving a complaint or call for help. Egs.
* Police respond to citizen
call for service
* Patrol is routine and
unstructured
* calls drive police activity
* emphasis is on solving
crime

proative policing - theory and practice of engaging with criminals before they commit a crime, thereby preventing crime from taking place in the first place. Egs.
* police seek solution to
crime
* patrol is targeted
* crime patterns drive police
activity.
* emphasis is on preventing
crime

Question 6

what are the key elements of problem oriented policing?

Answer 6

1. problem is something that concerns or causes harm to citizens.
2. addressing problems means more than quick fixes.
3. Police officers must routinely and systemically analyse problems before trying to solve them.
4. the analysis must be thorough even though it may not need to be complicated.
5. problems must be described precisely and accurately and broken down into their specific aspects.
6. problems must be understood in terms of the various interests at stake.

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