COMMUNITY POLICING UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Community policing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A philosophy that promotes organizational strategies,
which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively
address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and
fear of crime.
Community partnership - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Collaborative partnerships between the law
enforcement agency and the individuals and organizations they serve to develop solution to problems
and increase trust
Sharing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Authority
Ideas
Responsibility
Accountability
Community policing is NOT - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mobile police units "radio cars"
Hit and run response to calls
"Cops know best" attitude
Community Policing:
Made up of two complementary core components: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Community Partnership
Problem solving
Community partnership - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Police must develop relationships with the community
and must involve the community in the quest for better crime prevention, and must address the most
urgent needs of the community members.
Problem solving - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Process through which specific concerns are identified and
through which the most appropriate remedies to abate these problems are found.
Break problems down into smaller manageable portions
, Four Dimensions of Community Policing: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1.Philosophical Dimension
2.Tactical Dimension
3.Strategic Dimension
4.Organizational Dimension
Philosophical Dimension: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Shifting from reactive to a combination of proactive
and reactive.
• Requires partnerships with and input from those we serve.
• We are not better than those we serve - equality
• Personal service vs. bureaucratic lip service
• Empathy must be shown *
Strategic Dimension: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Operational concepts that translate Community Policing
philosophy into action.
• Policies and resources are in-line with the philosophy.
• Looking long-term vs. instant results
• Prevention / education programs
• Geographic focus
Tactical dimension - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Ideas and strategies are transferred into programs.
• Positive interactions
• Partnerships
• Problem solving
• Line level officers search for underlying conditions/causes of probSMS
Community policing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A philosophy that promotes organizational strategies,
which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively
address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and
fear of crime.
Community partnership - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Collaborative partnerships between the law
enforcement agency and the individuals and organizations they serve to develop solution to problems
and increase trust
Sharing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Authority
Ideas
Responsibility
Accountability
Community policing is NOT - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mobile police units "radio cars"
Hit and run response to calls
"Cops know best" attitude
Community Policing:
Made up of two complementary core components: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Community Partnership
Problem solving
Community partnership - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Police must develop relationships with the community
and must involve the community in the quest for better crime prevention, and must address the most
urgent needs of the community members.
Problem solving - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Process through which specific concerns are identified and
through which the most appropriate remedies to abate these problems are found.
Break problems down into smaller manageable portions
, Four Dimensions of Community Policing: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1.Philosophical Dimension
2.Tactical Dimension
3.Strategic Dimension
4.Organizational Dimension
Philosophical Dimension: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Shifting from reactive to a combination of proactive
and reactive.
• Requires partnerships with and input from those we serve.
• We are not better than those we serve - equality
• Personal service vs. bureaucratic lip service
• Empathy must be shown *
Strategic Dimension: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Operational concepts that translate Community Policing
philosophy into action.
• Policies and resources are in-line with the philosophy.
• Looking long-term vs. instant results
• Prevention / education programs
• Geographic focus
Tactical dimension - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅• Ideas and strategies are transferred into programs.
• Positive interactions
• Partnerships
• Problem solving
• Line level officers search for underlying conditions/causes of probSMS
