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Community policing

 U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services due to its
comprehensiveness:
“Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the
systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate
conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.”
 the ‘big six’ groups in a community that must work together to make community policing initiative
successful:
1. The Police Department - Includes all sworn and civilian personnel;
2. The Community – Includes everyone from formal and informal backgrounds;
3. Elected Officials – Local, County, State and Federal Officials;
4. The Business Community – Local and Major Corporations;
5. Other Agencies – Social services, Public health department and non-profit organizations; and
6. The Media – Both electronic and print.

Benefits of Community Policing


Community policing offers several benefits and advantages over traditional policing:

a. Enhanced Community-Police Relationship:


 Once police and community work closely together, they develop better relationships. While on the one
hand, police gets a chance to understand community dynamics and their problems, on the other, the
community gets to know about the working of police, their priorities, and constraints. A mutual
understanding fosters an enhanced community-police relationship that engenders cooperation for
improved quality of life.
 b. Community Policing is Democracy in Action:
requires the active participation of all segments of the community, where residents, traders,
government and non-governmental organizations, businesses and media join together in partnership to
solve the problems of law and social disorder prevalent in the society. Community and police collaborate
through all stages of identification, prioritization, planning, execution and evaluation of the community
policing initiative. Community policing does not only give voice to all stakeholders but helps them work
alongside police to resolve public safety problems.
 Better Integrated Community:
 provides a platform to the community from where they can jointly take action. Collective effort and
jointly working towards the common goals of preventing crime, fear of crime and social disorder require
enhanced community integration and also result in strengthening community bonds.
 d. Enhanced Safety and Morale of Police:
 Regular interaction of beat officers with the community allows them to be recognized and be known by
the community members and develop cordial ties through non-threatening and supportive interactions.
Beat officers working in familiar and friendly communities enjoy a heightened sense of support and
safety. A pleasant working relationship with the community helps to boost morale of the beat officers.
 e. Less Costly, Effective and Beneficial than Traditional Policing:
 the overall expenses of traditional policing in terms of response and investigations’ costs as well as losses
suffered by society due to crimes and fear of crime, community policing is much economical, effective
and beneficial for the community in the long run. As the focus of community policing is to proactively
curb crime and social disorder in the community by addressing root causes, therefore, as a result of its
implementation, crime rate is expected to decline.
 f. Reduced Fear of Crime in Community:
 Increased presence of beat officers in the community lowers down fear of crime in the community.
Community becomes confident and assured that it can seek help from readily available and easily
accessible community police officers on the beat.
 g. Valuable Information Sharing by Community:
 An important outcome of community policing is that beat officers can easily get valuable information
from. the community. As a result of the development of cordial relationships and bonds of trust between
beat officers and the community, people become willing to share valuable information on crimes and
suspected persons and activities that might lead to crimes. Community policing officers, upon this
information from the community to proactively prevent crime.

The three essential elements of community policing as identified by COPS are4


:

1-Partnerships:

. A strong and healthy relationship with the community does not only help the police in their functions of
crime prevention/control and maintaining social order but it also provides the community a greater sense of
security and subsequent reduction in fear of crime. Under the philosophy of community policing, police
develops partnerships with other government agencies, private businesses, media, nongovernmental
organizations and community members/ groups to come up with solutions to the problems

. 2-Organizational transformation:

Community policing requires organizational transformations that are supportive to formation of partnerships
and problem solving. Although, police departments might undergo varied organizational transformations,
however, most essential modifications include enhanced transparency and accountability, decentralized
decision making, empowerment of beat officers, introduction of modern information systems for problem
solving, financial allocations, supportive leadership, and hiring, selection, training and evaluation of officials
with a greater consideration to community policing.

3-Problem solving:

Amongst the various problem solving models devised, the most prominent is the SARA model that presents
the systematic approach of Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment. Another problem analysis model
commonly used is the problem analysis triangle (also referred as the crime triangle) that puts offender,
time/place and victim into perspective to understand and come up with a solution to the problem at hand.

Stages Of Community Policing;


Four stages Of Community Policing;

Stage 1:Preparatory
I. Taking all stakeholders on Board
II. Understanding the community context.
III. Establishing Partnership with communities
 Media partnership
 Business Community Partnership
 Govt. Partnership
o Development authorities
o Social services
o Muncipal authorities
 Non-governmental Partnership
o Community members
o Not-for-profit organization.
o Volunteers
 Chalking out a community policing plan
o Vision and mission statement
o A set of small goals relevant to community concerned.
o Programs theory\strategy for operationalizing coummity
policy planning.
I. Getting media support to propagate the message.

Stage 2: Implementation
II. Inter-departmental changes
 Openess and transparency
 Decentralization and power
 Department wide training on community policing.
 Establishing district community policing oversight committee.
 Community policing center and committees
 Recruitment , training and evaluation.
 Beat strategy for coummnity policing officers
 Developing inter agency cooperation.

Stage 3 :Evaluation
III. Process evaluation
IV. Impacts \result evaluation.

Community Policing in Pakistan: Positive Aspects and Shortcomings


the various community policing initiatives undertaken across Pakistan reflect the growing commitment of police
officials to reap benefits out of this community-oriented philosophy.

SNAPSHOT OF CURRENT COMMUNITY POLICING INITIATIVES IN PAKISTAN


 Endeavors to inculcate community policing in the police ethos have been initiated by various senior
police officers. However, community policing has never been sustainably institutionalized in Pakistan,
except for CPLC in Sindh. This section is an attempt to provide a summary of the major community
policing initiatives that have been advanced by police leadership across the country in the past and
present.
Also prepare from css prep. Forum.

Further read ARTICLES TO ACHIEVE PAKITANI PERSPECTIVESS \reasons of failure in Pakistan,examples


from Pakistan ,quotes..

The Police Order 2002 unequivocally laid down that it is the duty of a police officer to afford relief to
people in situations of distress, particularly in respect of women and children; provide assistance to
victims of road accidents

One example of the police department`s service-oriented activities is assistance through rescue
centres like Madadgar 15. In areas where these rescue centres are better organised and efficient, The
idea of community policing has received a good response in different countries such as Germany,
France, Italy, the UK, Sweden, and India.
The UN has also recognised the need for highlighting the importance of community policing.

police-community relations have improved considerably.

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