Community Policing One of the renowned names in community policing is Sir Robert Peel who helped found the London Metropolitan Police unit that was meant to be closer to the people than any other time before. Sir Robert had the objective of creating a community where "…the police are the public and the public are the police…" as indicated by Braiden, (1992). He envisioned a community where the idea of policing is closely linked between the formal police force and the community participation in the control, deterrence and termination of crimes in the entire England. This was a trend that was to be adopted in many parts of the world including the U.S.A.

Bearing the various successes that community policing has achieved, my support goes for the program and there is need to strengthen it and make it work better and more adaptable to the ever changing community. Initially, the crimes rates soared each day due to the divide between the police and the community they serve. There was the feeling of the otherness between the police and the community members. This hindered a free flow of information between the two sectors. With lack of information about crime, lawlessness went unhindered. It was the community policing ideology that drew the two together to facilitate the free flow of information, leading to crackdown on crime cartels, reduction of drug peddling and nabbing gun peddling in many parts of the U.S.A. This is a move...

This development severed the social distance between the community and the police. The police got more into answering calls and responding to the situation. The calls ultimately proved futile and not a means of sorting out the needs of the community. The technological development shifted the police from crime prevention to after crime control of further damage upon call. This trend escalated with the introduction of computer and computerized systems of profiling of crimes, type of crimes, frequency, trends, calculated rapidity, efficiency of dispatch, and so on the rapid response became an end in itself rather than a means to end crime (Conrad Adenauer, 2005). To reverse this, there was need to have community policing instilled among the society.
Before the community policing implementation, the management structure of the police emphasized on a centralized system and control that adhered to the preset operational standards and procedures. This structure was aimed at heightening the professionalism and absolute impartiality among the police. Apparently these standards were not understood by the public hence did not work well with them.…