Importance of Community Policing Flashcards
Define Community
“The people living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interest, social group or nationality”
Define Community Engagement
“The process of enabling participation of citizens and communities in policing at their chosen level, ranging from providing information and reassurance to empowering them to identify and implement solutions to local problems and influence strategic priorities and decisions.
4 principles of Neighborhood Policing
-Access: Accountable and named police officers and PCSOs
-Two-way communication: to develop trust
-Multi-agency working and community engagement: to identify priorities
-Collaboration: To develop crime reduction interventions
Dedicated Neighbour model
In which neighbourhood staff mainly spend their time on engagement, problem solving and prevention activity in a specified location.
Fully integrated models (Neighbourhood model)
Neighbourhood and response function are combined, sometimes with additional elements of investigation
Partially integrated model
Neighbourhood and response staff had separate functions but neighbourhood staff responsed and investigated when demand was high
Prioritised (neighbourhood model)
Version of fully integrated model in which some specified localities also had dedicated staff performing neighbourhood functions.
Consistent traditional
Forces that maintained their neighbourhood teams at similar level to 2008
Integrated hybrids (neighbourhood model)
Forces that increased the number of officers allocated to neighbourhood functions. These forces have few or no resources allocated to response indicating that the neighbourhood officers had a generalist and hybrid local policing role that involves response and possibly some investigation.
Information Provision - S.34 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011
Requirs police force to provide information about crime in
