Police Foundations LAW250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Community Policing, Clearance Rate, Ontario Provincial Police
9 Jun 2018
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POLICE FOUNDATIONS-LAW250
LECTURE 5
Crime Prevention and Community Policing
The policy and practice of community policing:
• Reassesses who is responsible for public safety and redefines the roles and relationships
between the police and the community
• Requires shared ownership, decision making and accountability, as well as sustained
commitment from both the police and the community
• Establishes new public expectation of and measurement standards for police
effectiveness
- Measure of police performance include quality of service, customer satisfaction,
responsiveness to issues identified by the community and cultural sensitivity
• Increases understanding and trust between police and community leaders
• Empowers and strengthens community based efforts
• Requires constant flexibility to respond to all emerging issues
• Requires an ongoing commitment to developing long-term proactive strategies. To
address the underlying conditions that cause community problems
• Requires knowledge of available community resources and how to access and mobilize
them
• Decentralizes police services
- Relaxes the traditional chain of command
- Encourages innovation and creative problem solving
• Requires a commitment from the top management of the police and other local
government agencies
• Shifts the focus of police work from responding to individual incidents to addressing
problems identified
• Required a commitment to developing new skills through training
What community policing is NOT:
• A panacea for solving all of a community’s problems of crime and disorder
• A replacement for many traditional police services and crime prevention strategies
• A single police initiative , although specific programs can be developed within a community
policing strategy
• Solely the responsibility of the police rather it required a true police community partnership
• A generic, one size fits all, policing model that can be applied to all communities across
the country
• A program or series of initiatives that can be added onto existing police organizational
structure
• A policing strategy appropriate for addressing all types of criminal activity
The framework of community policing:
• Citizens are actively responsible for policing their own neighborhoods and communities
• The community is a source of operational information including
- Crime control knowledge
- Strategic operations for the police
• The police are more directly accountable to the community
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Document Summary
Measure of police performance include quality of service, customer satisfaction, responsiveness to issues identified by the community and cultural sensitivity. Increases understanding and trust between police and community leaders: empowers and strengthens community based efforts, requires constant flexibility to respond to all emerging issues, requires an ongoing commitment to developing long-term proactive strategies. To address the underlying conditions that cause community problems: requires knowledge of available community resources and how to access and mobilize them, decentralizes police services. The framework of community policing: citizens are actively responsible for policing their own neighborhoods and communities, the community is a source of operational information including. Strategic operations for the police: the police are more directly accountable to the community. A partnership of the key players: the key players in community policing include. Intelligence led policing is a collaborative enterprise based on improved intelligence operations and community oriented policing and problem solving.
