Community Policing: Successful Implementation of Change
The adoption of a community policing strategy within police agencies is often a change that is instituted with much protest and unrest among officers. In order for community policing to be successful however, it has to be presented to organizations and individual police agents as a mechanism of positive change and law enforcement improvement.
Community policing is often in fact adopted by police agencies as a mechanism for improving internal and external relations and delivering optimal service to communities within a given area (Fielding, 1995). According to Fielding (1995) community policing can "evoke images of police-community relations in stable, consensus based and homogenous neighborhoods where crime is a mere irritant" (p.25). However, it is sometimes met with resistance among agents and officers alike.
Thus a suitable environment for change has to be created in order to ensure successful implementation of community policing aims. A suitable environment may be defined as one that supports community policing and one where agents and managers alike are motivated to accomplish community policing tasks with the same enthusiasm as they would other job responsibilities.
Change Catalysts
For community policing to be adopted successfully an organization must first engage in a change of work style. The approach requires a proper climate for change, one that encouraged crime control as the responsibility of police agents shared with the public and one that encourages the development...
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