Proactive Policing
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- Created on: 17-05-13 14:11
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- Proactive Policing
- Building up pictures of threats to the peace and potential criminality through the targeting of potential criminals and the surveillance of them
- Intelligence is vital so that threats can be
identified and appropriate counter-measures taken
- This information may or may not come from the general public
- Tends to involve specialist squads (eg drugs and fraud squads) who are reliant on the analysis of crime patterns and information from informants
- Dangers with this form of policing are that it is secretive and so less accountable and that the targets will be selected out of prejudice
- Broken Windows
- Wilson and Kelling
- Assertive tackling of incivilities
- Disorder = fear = crime
- Targeting physical and social disorder can influence crime rates
- Wilson and Kelling
- Chicago Study
- Focused on problems rather than incidents
- Prevent crime rather than dealing with them once they've happened. Bring police, other police agencies and the community together
- More officers, beat meetings,
- Community policing
- "the police are the public and the public are the police"
- Originally associated with John Alderson
- Emphasised importance of a close relationship between police and the community
- Policing should respond to community demands rather than policing priorities
- Tilley
- Defining what constitute problems or policing needs
- Shaping forms of local policing by the police service
- Examining identified local problems alongside the police service
- Determining responses to identified issues
- Implementing responses to issues as participants in community policing
- Working with the police to address community defined problems
- Informing or supplementing the operational work of police officers
- Alderson: Policing Freedom - prevent crime by tackling underlying social causes
- Operation Swamp - Precipitates Brixton riots. Putting more police into the areas of riots - showed racial predudice
- Overall mixed evaluations "doomed to success"
- USA 1980s - a number of community policing initiatives - but it wasn't invented in america
- Reduce distance between police and policed. Foot patrol - visibility is important. Prevention is better than detection. Enhance trust and confidence = information. Community engagement
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