Exam 10: The Community and Community Policing

Identify the various roles and activities that exist for community residents. Provide examples of the programs that exist within your own community.

Discuss the issues relating to cultural and visible minority and Aboriginal communities and community policing.

In the city of Vancouver, the issue of community includes:

Describe the strategies used to gather information on and facilitate partnerships with the community.

Describe the use of community surveys in the development of police-community partnerships.

Community policing and social development can best be described as:

What are the key issues surrounding the community portion of the community policing equation?

Discuss the concept behind community empowerment.

When dealing with volunteers, a major challenge for police services includes:

Describe the role of auxiliaries in Canadian police services.

Research has found that community residents, especially those who have been the victims of crime, tend to be very involved in community policing initiatives, and generally have a great deal of knowledge concerning police initiatives.

Community policing requires that the police service develop the capacity to determine the priorities and concerns of the community being policed, if such a capacity does not already exist. In addition, it is essential that police services develop ways to solicit continual feedback from the community, so that policies and initiatives can be enhanced, modified, or, if found to be ineffective, discontinued.