Concept of Community Policing
"Community policing is a philosophy of full service personalized policing, where the same officer patrols and works in the same area on a permanent basis, from a decentralized place, working in a proactive partnership with citizens to identify and solve problems."(Trojanowicz and Bucqueroux 1994:2-3)
Community, generally it means a common group of people residing in a particular place or location. In wider sense, statutory bodies, organizations, professionals and institutions are also included in community. Community policing can be defined as “community driven policing systemâ€. The ultimate efforts of creating the police-people entrepreneurship to find out the efficient way to combat crime maintain law and order, arrest criminals, and keeping close relations with the common people to identify their problems and its causes and the ways of solution. So, the policy involved here to bring and make bridge between the law enforcing agencies and the common people. Law enforcing agencies, by rules and regulations of the state, supplements to meet the requisites for peace in the society, where police plays a vital role like a helm for the boat. The history of police is age-old. The evolution of police in terms of organization and application has been done along with a string of changes. If we consider the historical development of police in UK and specially after starting of European enlightened, we found policing as the historical basis of the present form of policing. Robert Peel is the father of modern policing and also the founder of London Metropolitan Police,. He developed a philosophy in order to bring people oriented policing along with the traditional policing. The sum and substance of his dogma is “the police are public and the public are policeâ€. So, the concept of community policing derives from Robert Peel’s modern policing concept. He developed a philosophy in order to bring people oriented policing along with the traditional policing. Different persons and institutions have defined community policing in different ways. The key idea of all definitions is to work for better life by proactive means with a view to finding out the causes of problems as well as solving problems on the basis of joint efforts with the mass .so the concept Community Policing is an organization-wide philosophy and management approach that promotes community, government and police partnerships, proactive ness, ways of solving societies problems in swift manner.
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