Lecture 29 Policing Communities Flashcards
What is community policing?
It is about local policing; police, partners and the community working together to identify and tackle issues of concern. Every community is different and so are the problems that matter to residents.
It is where policing is focused towards the local priorities of the community and the police are accountable to citizens, developing the passive concept of ‘policing by consent’ into something which is more dynamic.
It is about taking a proactive role, with other relevant agencies an key individuals, in doing something constructive about issues of risk to community safety
Types of communities
(Creating neighbourhood and community profiles)?
✓ Helping the police to understand the complexity of their local community.
✓ Identifying which group or groups people associate themselves with.
✓ Identifying when, where and how neighbourhood teams are going to engage with those groups over a rolling 12-month period.
✓ Being flexible enough to recognise new or emerging groups that teams need to engage with on an ongoing basis.
✓ Understanding how particular groups choose to communicate, and targeting engagement appropriately
Aims of community policing?
The aim is to enable local people and local communities to be a part of the solution to local crime and disorder problems. It also aims to:
• Help partnership building
• Reduce Crime, anti-social behaviour and demand
• Create stronger communities
• Improve public perception
What is citizen focused approach?
The aim of a citizen focused approach is to:
• Improve the experience of those who have contact with the police
• Develop community engagement strategies in consultation with the public, effective communication techniques and ways in which to involve people at a local level
• Raise awareness and local accountability of policing by implementing ways in which people can give feedback on police performance.
A citizen focused approach should be:
• Responsive to the needs of individuals and communities
• Accountable to the public
• Continuously looking for ways to improve local policing; this means responding positively to feedback from the public and using that feedback to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the service it provides
• Delivered by officers who have the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours to interact with members of the public, empathise with their concerns and gain their trust and respect.
Policing Models: Community Policing?
Community policing is a philosophy of full service personalised policing, where the same officer patrols and works in the same area on a permanent basis, from a decentralised place, working in a proactive partnership with citizens to identify and solve problems.
- Bertus Ferreira 1996
Policing Models: Problem Orientated Policing?
Problem-orientated policing (POP), also known as problem solving policing, is an approach to tackling crime and disorder that involves the identification of a specific problem, thorough analysis to understand the problem, the development of a tailored response and an assessment of the effects of the response. POP can be described in the context of the SARA model of problem solving. The model assumes that by identifying and understanding the root causes of a problem the solution developed to tackle it will be effective.
