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Components of Community Policing
Redefines the roles and relationship between the police and the community.
Requires shared ownership, decision making and accountability, as well as sustained commitment from both the police and the community.
Establishes new public expectations of and measurement standards for police effectiveness.
New standards include quality of service, citizen satisfaction, cultural sensitivity, and responsiveness to community defined issues.
Increases understanding and trust between police and community members. Promotes more contacts, greater communication, and information exchange.
Empowers and strengthens community-based efforts.
Requires greater flexibility to respond to emerging issues. Personnel and resources must be flexible to respond to problems identified through increased contacts and intelligence developed about current community problems.
Requires long-term, strategic planning to address underlying conditions that cause community problems.
Requires knowledge of available community resources and how to access and mobilize them, as well as an ability to develop new resources within the community.
Requires buy-in from the top management of the police and other local government agencies.
Requires internal philosophical support to promote risk taking, creativity and innovation, and a commitment to free officers' time and provide necessary resources.
Decentralizes police services, operations and management, and encourages innovative and creative problem-solving.
Empowers employees by giving them the authority and support to make decisions.