Do we need both traditional and community models for effective policing in a democratic community?

Effective Policing In A Democratic Community : Traditional and Community Models

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Introduction

In a traditional model of policing , a police officer would generally respond to a call when a crime has occurred . After responding to the crime , the officer would write a report and hand over the investigation to a detective . Then the officer would return to his car and wait for another call reporting that another crime had occurred (Wellington 2009 . Thus the officer has minimal interaction with citizens within a

br community , hardly knows anyone in the area of operation nor do the citizens know the officers . In this type of policing , there 's no strategy policing , there 's no strategy to try and prevent the crime from happening thus rendering it a sort of supply and demand type of policing (McGowan , 2008

Community policing , essentially , is about police involvement with the community through reorganizing police agencies and altering the daily activities of operational police officers . The implementation of community policing has however resulted in community policing becoming `many things to many people ' thus , a proper definition is still elusive It can however be said to be a philosophical as well as an organizational strategy whereby the basis of the philosophy is emphasis on efficient working partnership with the community (AIC , 2009 . This will discuss how the two models could direct the response of the police in the case of a terrorist threat

Response in a traditional model of policing

In a traditional...