Community Policy Programs

Community Policy Programs

Introduction

All around the world, nations are realizing the importance of community policing. Community policing can be defined as a strategy that established fundamental policing practices with the focus on preventing crime and finding long term solutions to problems. This form of policing requires innovative ideas from police offers and citizens. Community policing is helpful in reducing crimes and restoring orders in the society. When implementing community policing, it is important to change the structure of policing as well as its management. Community policing helps in building and strengthening the community.

Discussion

The aim of community policing programs is to bring citizen and police close together. The purpose of these programs is to prevent crime. Community policing programs also contribute towards prevention neighborhood programs. With community policing, it is possible to stop crimes before they happen. Community policing provides citizens with more control over the quality of life in the community. With the help of community policing, the police becomes an integral part of the neighborhood. It allows police to get an insight of the needs of residents and allows residents to generate greater trust in the police. In other words, in community policy the community joins the police department. In communities where community policing is practiced, the residents are likely to develop favorable opinions of the police.

There are several advantages of community policing. Community policing is considered to be an effective way of promoting public safety. It also provides benefits in terms of enhancing the quality of life in the community. Community policing has an important role in defining the policing elements. Community policing develops relationships between the police and the community. It also leads towards problem solving in neighborhoods. However, in order to realize these benefits, it is important for community policing to achieve certain goals. First, community policing should broaden the needs of the police organization. Second, community policing should change the way police accomplishes its task (Nalla & Boke, 2011).

In order to promote community policing, active participation is required from the local government. The participation and support of the government is not enough to support community policing but the support from citizens is also critical. The basic idea behind community policing is that everyone in the neighborhood is responsible for solving neighborhood problems. The traditional policing methods are different from those used in community policing. The goals of community policing are broader than traditional policing. Community policing contributes towards changing the goals of the community.

In traditional policing, it is assumed that the problems of the society are not included in the realm of the police department. The traditional police are reactive rather than being proactive. The traditional police department does not look outside resolving the incident that has happened. These aspects of traditional policing separate itself from the services of the city (Nalla & Boke, 2011).

When implementing community policing, it is important to change the structure of policing as well as its management. Community policing helps in building and strengthening the ...