Community Policing

<p>Community policing has been a buzzword in Anglo-American policing for the last two decades somewhat vague in its definition but generally considered to be a good thing. In the UK the notion of community policing conveys a consensual policing style offering an alternative to past public order and crimefighting styles. In the US community policing represents the dominant ideology of policing as reflected in a myriad of urban schemes and funding practices the new orthodoxy in North American policing policy-making strategies and tactic. But it has also become a massive export to non-western societies where it has been adopted in many countries in the face of scant evidence of its appropriateness in very different contexts and surroundings.</p><ul> <li>critical analysis of concept of community policing worldwide </li> <li>assesses evidence for its effectiveness especially in the USA and UK </li> <li>highlights often inappropriate export of community policing models to failed and transitional societies. </li> </ul>