SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: New York City Police Commissioner, Ontario Provincial Police, Police Services Act Of Ontario
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Community policing was started in britain with the introduction of robert. In america, it was started as early as 1914 the then new york city police. However others oppose that there has always been community policing: especially in rural areas. It is also possible to combine both of these perspectives and to view community policing as re - emergence of the original style of policing. While these phases may be regarded as simplistic, offering only limited applicability to other nations. Oppal (1994) describes the characteristics of community policing as follows: incident oriented, response oriented, focused on limited analysis, focused on narrow response, focused on the mean rather the end. The development of community policing canada may be seen, in part, as a reaction to what has occurred in the unites states. However, any analysis along these lines must be undertaken with caution: because canadian policing did not have to deal with the same concerns as american policing had to.