Effectiveness of Crime prevention strategies as implemented by the Camalaniugan Police station
Chapter I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
In our contemporary society at present, every country is facing various problems in suppressing crime rate. Every country has different crime profile and no one could claim that they had the best strategy that will lessen the increasing criminality. To deal with this problem, law enforcement agencies had already move on to the principle of crime prevention rather than crime fighting in order to determine their effectiveness and efficiency in accomplishing their goals; to maintain peace and order, protect civil rights, civil liberties and enforcing the law. The evolution of Crime Prevention has been expanded that, from being seen as a relatively narrow policing function, it evolves to the extent that it involves now a much broad transversal approach by different state and community actors. It is now accepted that prevention takes many forms, that it involves many sectors and levels of government and civil society, and that local authorities and communities have a major role to play, supported by strong sub-regional and national strategies and policy. There is accumulating evidence that many prevention programs are not only effective in reducing offending and victimization, but cost beneficial, resulting in considerable long-term savings for the investment entailed, and bringing social and economic benefits well beyond reductions in crime. Crime prevention is an aspect that every state has to consider in order to ensure security as well as the safety. Peace and order relies on how efficient a state is in a position to fight and prevent crime. There are laws set to assist in the governance process of every nation and they decide on the penalties that an individual has to endure in order to ensure that justice prevails. The police are a body by the government that has the responsibilities of making sure that all the citizens adhere to the set laws at all times and in cases where there are law breakers then
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
In our contemporary society at present, every country is facing various problems in suppressing crime rate. Every country has different crime profile and no one could claim that they had the best strategy that will lessen the increasing criminality. To deal with this problem, law enforcement agencies had already move on to the principle of crime prevention rather than crime fighting in order to determine their effectiveness and efficiency in accomplishing their goals; to maintain peace and order, protect civil rights, civil liberties and enforcing the law. The evolution of Crime Prevention has been expanded that, from being seen as a relatively narrow policing function, it evolves to the extent that it involves now a much broad transversal approach by different state and community actors. It is now accepted that prevention takes many forms, that it involves many sectors and levels of government and civil society, and that local authorities and communities have a major role to play, supported by strong sub-regional and national strategies and policy. There is accumulating evidence that many prevention programs are not only effective in reducing offending and victimization, but cost beneficial, resulting in considerable long-term savings for the investment entailed, and bringing social and economic benefits well beyond reductions in crime. Crime prevention is an aspect that every state has to consider in order to ensure security as well as the safety. Peace and order relies on how efficient a state is in a position to fight and prevent crime. There are laws set to assist in the governance process of every nation and they decide on the penalties that an individual has to endure in order to ensure that justice prevails. The police are a body by the government that has the responsibilities of making sure that all the citizens adhere to the set laws at all times and in cases where there are law breakers then