What is “COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING AND PROBLEM SOLVING?
“Strictly speaking, community oriented policing means forging a partnership and relationship between the police and the community to control crime. Problem oriented policing means focusing on a problem and devising a strategy that brings available resources to bear to arrive at a long-term solution. It means empowering officers at the line level to interact as problem-solvers with those we serve. Management becomes support staff for the efforts of those individuals who are collaborating with residential and business community members to solve problems. Community Oriented Policing: • Is a community based/oriented philosophy • Promotes and requires partnership and two-way communication • Is proactive • Encourages problem-solving as a tactic • Attacks the causes, not symptoms of crime and disorder • Stresses community participation and empowerment • Provides police officers opportunity to be valued for their worth, not their rank • Provides a broader role for line officers to be problem-s
