Community Policing: An Innovative Approach for Effective Law Enforcement

Abstract

This research is an attempt to understand community policing as an innovative approach to encourage police-community interaction for crime reduction and implementation of law and order. It identifies key gaps in policing and provides strategies to reinforce community policing guidelines and initiatives for crime prevention. This is an endeavor to understand community policing and considers the mandate, design, features, and functions by profiling initiatives laid out by the authorities. It also sheds light on the importance of citizen-police affiliation assisting law enforcers to enhance their capacity for identification, recognition, and acknowledgment of prevalent community issues through positive non-enforcement. Most importantly, strategies to reestablish communication and trust between communities and law enforcement agencies through proactive engagement and community-oriented programs have been discussed. Lastly, this article has also examined government introduced legal frameworks and recommendations to enhance community-police engagement to ensure improvement in policing.