Community Policing as a Strategy for Police–Public Partnership in Crime Prevention

Abstract

Community policing has become a way to work together with traditional methods of keeping the law. It focuses on working to solve problems being seen and staying connected with the communities that the police serve. This paper looks at the ideas, main parts and how police departments change when they use community policing to build partnerships between police and the public for stopping crime. The study uses an approach exploring and describing the research through Qualitative Methodology. It looks at information from police documents, communications and books and groups the information into themes. Five main themes came up: working with the community to build trust; finding problems and using the SARA model (Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment) to solve them; changing how police departments work; being seen, easy to reach and working in neighborhoods; and the problems of putting this into practice in countries like Pakistan. The results show that even though community policing has an idea and has worked before it needs continued support from the police more freedom for local leaders and changes that fit the local culture. The study ends with ideas for making police and public work together in places where there are not a lot of resources.