CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
5.1 CONCLUSION
Effective community policing may result in prevention of crime and hence to crime less society. The assumption that when the response of people on community policing is low, the prevention and combating of crimes will be difficult, is true, it is undisputed that when there is a failure to prevent, and a crime is committed the communication has an important role to play by bringing the occurrence of a crime and the criminal to the attention of the police.
They are the one who can tell what happened, where, how and by whom. This means that their action determine all subsequent steps of crime prevention, combining and criminal process. It is on this basis that we note that the safety and security …show more content…
This may be attributed to lack of Community policing policy providing the modalities on the involvement of the community in crime prevention and the techniques employed by police in crime prevention. It is therefore recommended that the leadership from grass root of the government should be strengthened, that is; the government should review the functions of leaders from grass root (village) level to make them accountable. Most of the leaders in the grass root or sub ward level do not understand their responsibilities as regards the safety and security issues in their localities. There should be a law or by the laws stipulating the need of establishing local security groups which will be supervised by local leaders on each locality. It should be mandatory participation in such security groups. And that may be done by way of physical participation or in terms of paying a certain amount of …show more content…
Many police reject the notion that theirs is to be a service organization where the public are seen as clients who consume police service, status and promotion within the police ranks is still strongly linked to successes in crime fighting, not to an amorphous concept of crime prevention. Thus the police need to change their culture and accept the notion of being the service organization which leads to success in crime
5.1 CONCLUSION
Effective community policing may result in prevention of crime and hence to crime less society. The assumption that when the response of people on community policing is low, the prevention and combating of crimes will be difficult, is true, it is undisputed that when there is a failure to prevent, and a crime is committed the communication has an important role to play by bringing the occurrence of a crime and the criminal to the attention of the police.
They are the one who can tell what happened, where, how and by whom. This means that their action determine all subsequent steps of crime prevention, combining and criminal process. It is on this basis that we note that the safety and security …show more content…
This may be attributed to lack of Community policing policy providing the modalities on the involvement of the community in crime prevention and the techniques employed by police in crime prevention. It is therefore recommended that the leadership from grass root of the government should be strengthened, that is; the government should review the functions of leaders from grass root (village) level to make them accountable. Most of the leaders in the grass root or sub ward level do not understand their responsibilities as regards the safety and security issues in their localities. There should be a law or by the laws stipulating the need of establishing local security groups which will be supervised by local leaders on each locality. It should be mandatory participation in such security groups. And that may be done by way of physical participation or in terms of paying a certain amount of …show more content…
Many police reject the notion that theirs is to be a service organization where the public are seen as clients who consume police service, status and promotion within the police ranks is still strongly linked to successes in crime fighting, not to an amorphous concept of crime prevention. Thus the police need to change their culture and accept the notion of being the service organization which leads to success in crime