NCJ Number
94282
Editor(s)
T Bennett
Date Published
1983
Length
180 pages
Annotation
This series of British papers on community policing and police accountability to the community they serve considers definitions of community policing, the effectiveness of community policing, training police for community policing, and police complaint processing.
Abstract
In an effort to demonstrate the importance of police management in improving police effectiveness, the opening paper discusses the police mission, reviews police operations and the extent to which they can be considered effective and efficient, and considers the contribution police management makes to organizing its resources to achieve its goals. Another paper discusses the content of a police human awareness training curriculum and teaching techniques appropriate for it, followed by a critique of concepts of community policig operative in various British communities and suggestions for a general approach to a structure for community policing. An analysis of surveys to determine public attitudes toward the police and police self image in three British communities found that the public and the police have differing concepts of what constitutes effective policing. Other papers review the evolution of the police complaints system in England and Wales, a measurement of police effectiveness that encompasses concepts of community policing, evaluative-research findings pertaining to the effectiveness of community policing, lessons for Britain regarding police accountability and community control, and the issue of accountabiilty in the structure and operations of the Metropolitan Police (the police force for Greater London). References accompany some of the papers. For individual documents, see NCJ 94283-91.