Development, Impact, and Implications of Community Policing in Canada (From Community Policing: Rhetoric or Reality, P 177-189, 1988, Jack R Greene and Stephen D Mastrofski, eds. -- See NCJ-115735)

• NCJ Number: 115745
• Author(s): C Murphy
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 13 pages
• Sale Source: Praeger Publishers
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

Community policing has affected several aspects of police ideology and practice in Canada and involves several conceptual and operational issues that will influence its future development.

Abstract

Community policing has developed in Canada with relatively little external social or political pressure because the Canadian police are publicly popular, well-financed, politically autonomous, organizationally stable, and ideologically powerful. Like other policing developments in Canada, community policing represents a modified copy of a development in the United States. Its implementation has differed in rural and urban environments. In addition, so far the Canadian police have conservatively interpreted the concept of broad community involvement, accountability, and participation in police policy. In addition, many unresolved issues remain, including the definition of a community, the decision regarding community representation, the roles of the community and the police, and potential conflicts between community standards and individual rights. Nevertheless, the development of community policing in Canada represents a significant shift in rhetoric and practice. Police, government, and citizen groups have enthusiastically adopted community policing as a means of reforming public policing to meet varied public and institutional interests. Note.