Definition of community policing seems best understood as a range of specific techniques that the police and public use to work in partnership at a local level. Used in this sense, community policing is a micro-level concept. It is a concrete effort to promote community justice and social control by mobilizing social resources within an identifiable group of people.1
Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.2…
