ommunity policing is the principal operational strategy for many police organisations throughout the world. However, Community Based Policing, Community Oriented Policing or simply Community Policing is a value laden idea. Consequently, the way an organisation understands the history of police/community relations and the notions of 'community' and 'community policing' will largely dictate outco...

RESPONSE: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department created an International Relations Unit to assist in developing problem-solving initiatives targeting the international community. A multifaceted approach including building tenant-management relationships, a CPTED survey guided physical changes to the complex, and police presence was increased through bike and foot patrols. Additionally, mo...

Over the past two decades, police departments around the globe have been involved in a slow, but steady transition from call-based policing to community-oriented policing. The former approach, while effective at closing cases once a crime has occurred, does little to develop crime prevention partnerships between officers on the beat and the citizens of local communities. Community-oriented poli...

ecent events have identified a range of attempts to strike a balance in police accountability between citizen demands for effective, external police accountability mechanisms and a police preference for internal forms of accountability, in other words, for self-regulation. The quest for this balance has emerged from the failure of the police in recent years to convince many segments of the comm...

Despite calls for community-oriented policing and the recognition that it results in improved relationships between police community as well public security outcomes, police-community relations are arguably at an all-time low. Part of challenge achieving enhanced is a disparate understanding what each party wants can provide prioritizing these factors. We present project worked to improve throu...