There are essentially four facets of community policing . These are i)the philosophical, where the community’s role is fundamental and the police’s role is expanded from traditional policing duties; ii)thestrategic, where ideas from community policing are developed into strategies for practice; iii) thetactical, which focuses on the implementation of the strategies developed; and iv) theorganizational; where the support offered at an organizational level should be encouraged to promote community policing. According to Anderson J (2007), there are many reasons why community policing is beneficial to society. These arguments can generally be broken down into three areas. The first is community-specific advantages, which include mobilization and empowerment of communities to identify and respond to their concerns; improve local physical and social environment; increase in positive attitudes towards police and reduced fear of crime. The second is police-specific benefits in which community policing would improve police–community relationship; improve community perception of police ‘legitimacy’ and an increase in officer satisfaction with their work. The third is shared benefits both for the community and the police. This may include a decreasing potential for police–citizen …show more content…
Therefore, the attempts to have a more developed and stabilize community demand a need for the whole community to collaborate with the law enforcements in maintaining social order and putting crime reduction strategies to create a safe environment for people to operate. There are various ways in which community can be developed and one of the debatable issues with regards to community development is community policing . Accordingly, community policing is a philosophical idea for an efficient delivery of police services. Community policing represent an acceptance which the community has a vital and crucial role to place in having a successful resolution of social order and crime problems, and such partnerships with the community can be much more efficient