Mrs. Crystal Watts
CJC-122-40LS
1 October 2015
Community Policing Theories Four theories that will help with community policing are, SARA model, CPTED, Community Service Centers, Problem Oriented Policing. S.A.R.A Model S.A.R.A model is a four stage problem solving process. The four processes are scanning, analysis, response, and assessment. When scanning is used it is to identify the problem. Police officers use Scanning as their first step to identify problems in the beats then look for patterns or persistent incidents that have been repeated. Police officers may ask at that point and time what is the problem? Problems are viewed by behaviors, location, persons, time, and events. Behaviors are the most frequent …show more content…
Community services also give opportunities the people who need help such as counseling, having them activities, events, and give them education. If there are community service centers that means taking people off the streets and helping them become a better person and not become beggars because now they will have an opportunity to own clothes and get back on their feet as well as receive an education that will help them get some type of job in their field. Community service centers can be life changing to people who need it and those who don’t.
Problem-Oriented Policing Problem-Oriented policing seeks to identify the causes of crime problems and frames appropriate responses using a wide variety of alternatives to approach the problem. Problem-Oriented policing helps our community because it makes police officer aware of a situation and they want to stop the crime by understanding what causes it. Using Problem-Oriented policing will lower the causes of crime due to having the situation resolved. Problem-Oriented policing also uses the SARA model which means if SARA model is being used already it makes no difference in their training or learning on the police officer behave because the already know the