Operationalizing Community Policing in Rural America: Sense and Nonsense (From COPPS (Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving): Now and Beyond, P 118-125, 1999 -- See NCJ-179935)

• NCJ Number: 179939
• Author(s): Gary W. Cordner; Kathryn E. Scarborough
• Date Published: July 1999
• Length: 8 pages
• Sale Source: NCJRS Photocopy Services; California Attorney General's Office
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Because the application of community policing to rural areas and small towns presents some interesting ironies and contradictions, this paper considers various approaches to rural policing and how dimensions of community policing apply in rural areas.

Abstract

Rural policing includes small town police departments, rural sheriffs, and rural State police. Community policing can be applied in rural areas in accordance with philosophical, strategic, tactical, and organizational dimensions of community policing. The practical application of these dimensions within the different contexts of rural policing is discussed. The authors conclude that community policing is just as applicable to small towns and rural areas as it is to urban and suburban areas. 6 references