How does Neighbourhood Policing fit with the Home Office Police Reform agenda?
The Neighbourhood Policing Programme fits closely with the ideas set out in the Home Office consultation paper ‘Policing: Building Safer Communities Together’. This paper seeks to take Police Reform further by moving towards ‘policing through cooperation’ which involves increasing community engagement, strengthening accountability arrangements (including strengthened accountability for delivering effective neighbourhood policing), improving operational effectiveness (which includes ensuring sufficient capability to combat crime at neighbourhood level) and modernising the police service.
