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Methods
editMany community-oriented police structures focus on assigning officers to a specific area called a “beat”, and those officers become familiar with that area through a process of “beat profiling.” The officers are then taught how to design specific patrol strategies to deal with the types of crime that are experienced in that beat.
These ideas are implemented in a multi-pronged approach using a variety of aspects, such as broadening the duties of the police officer and individualizing the practices to the community they're policing; refocusing police efforts to face-to-face interactions in smaller patrol areas with an emphasized goal of preventing criminal activity instead of responding to it; solving problems using input from the community they're policing; and, finally, making an effort to increase service-oriented positive interactions with police.
Common methods of community-policing include:
- Encouraging the community to help prevent crime by providing advice, talking to students and encouraging neighborhood watch groups.
- Increased use of foot or bicycle patrols.
- Increased officer accountability to the communities they serve.
- Creating teams of officers to carry out community policing in designated neighborhoods.
- Clear communication between the police and the communities about their objectives and strategies.
- Partnerships with other organizations such as government agencies, community members, nonprofit service providers, private businesses and the media.
- Moving toward some decentralizing of the police authority, allowing more discretion among lower-ranking officers, and more initiative expected from them