Essays on Community Policing

The purpose of this essay is to show the development of policing from pre-modern to today, and the key factors and people that influence and prompted change. The main feature of the development of modern policing was to promote change within the mindset of officers who viewed themselves as soldiers in a war against crime,...

Advancements in conventional policing have strengths and weaknesses. Commitments to community policing and flexibility within the police force are addressing evolving crime. Proactive conventional policing basic principals come from traditional police practice with the addition of technological advancements in intelligence-led policing. Operational tactics and organisational structures are changing current crime control philosophy and police practice....

Policing strategies has undergone numerous transformations since its official introduction in the ‘reform era,’ to its operations in the ‘new era.’ The ‘standard model’ of policing was established in the 1930’s, utilising traditional police approaches in dealing with crime, driving a large proportion of current police activity. The standard model has undergone intense scrutiny and...

Imagine living in a community where you experience constant fear, individuals having to miss work or school whenever there is a violent flare-up or individuals unable to leave home successfully without having to worry about theft and loss of property. Though these situations are difficult to fathom, they are faced by many Jamaicans, especially those...

Background Information In the past few decades, the police have transformed from a police force to a police-oriented organization. Many police departments around the world now implement community policing to overcome the inherent shortcomings of a purely passive policing approach. Police rely heavily on public recognition to maintain their legitimacy and need to persuade the...

Policing as we know it today has developed from various political, economic, and social factors. The first instance of a full time uniformed police was established based on Sir Robert Peel’s Metropolitan Police Force of London, which was instituted in 1829. However, unlike their English counterparts, American police departments lacked the powerful, central authority of...

Ethical policing in the UK faces complex and unpredictable challenges from numerous sources. Sir Robert Peel’s nine Principles of Policing (1829), collectively referred to as policing with consent, suggest that for the police to operate efficiently as an organisation the public must approve of their existence and provide their co-operation, and that the police are...

”Police culture is where values, beliefs and norms are shared among police officers, which help them to understand the world and their role in it” (Valcore, 2018). This report will expand on the theory of Police Culture and explain how police officers see the social world, as well as, the role they partake in society....