Policing the Community or Community Policing: Implication for Community Development in Nigeria

COMMUNITY POLICING: Training Issues

*Editorial and writing assistance provided by Bonnie Pollard. Introduction* The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications that community policing has for police officer training, as well as to examine the issue those implications raise. Outlining the boundaries of these concerns is important, because community policing differs radically from traditions policing, such as motor patrol,...

Effective Community Policing Performance Measures

Police Responses to Community Policing

good deal of analysis has been done on organisational change within police bureaucracies and on operational changes in the streets. The link between these two processes of change in the transition to a community policing model needs to be better understood. Of course, management style and work culture are notoriously difficult to measure. It seems a reasonable assumption, however, that if commu...

Community policing and the politics of local development in Tanzania

This paper explores how the concept of ‘community policing’ has been understood and implemented in Tanzania. Whilst community policing is locally considered to be a very effective means of preventing crime and improving neighbourhood safety, the extent to which it constitutes a more accountable, responsive or ‘democratic’ form of policing, as assumed by proponents, is questionable. Based on res...

Can Community Policing Help The Truly Disadvantaged?

Community policing advocates argue that reforms designed to break down barriers between police and citizens can produce favorable outcomes. The authors test a series of related hypotheses in a multivariate context by using four independent data sources— community surveys, patrol officer interviews, Census Bureau, and police crime records— to estimate hierarchical linear models. The results show...