PROACTIVE COMMUNITY POLICING

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PROACTIVE COMMUNITY POLICING

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Write an essay paper focusing on proactive community policing

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Since way back there has been division in the police department and that has not changed until now. In majority of police agencies, most officers serve reactively with only a small percentage assuming proactive policing roles. This creates distinctively different orientations of officers which at long last will not work smoothly as a unit as a result of incompatibility (Goldstein p.7). A community whereby officers are not in good terms with citizens, preventable crimes may be rampant and officers acting when it is too late.

Communication between citizens and officers plays a major role in crime prevention. Cooperation between officers and citizens ensures officers are provided with handy information which can assist in locating possible suspects before they conduct crimes. This can only be possible if there is good relationship between citizens and officers by them spending more time with community.

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