Community policing

Explain the concept of Community policing ?  Discuss the methods to make the community policing successful.

Concept of Community policing is based on principles of London policing system which says that a crime free society must be policed by the members of the society in general and by a specialized organization called police to carry out special police functions.

Community policing states that people are police and police is people.

     According to Uppal commission of Canada , community policing will be successful only if it is taken up in decentralized and democratic manner. This clears the way for  effective and comprehensive participation of every member of  the community. Also, the service conditions and remuneration of police personnel should be adequate. If not, then the members of the police administration might discourage community policing as it would hinder in their corruption earnings as was the case of Uganda Police department. Besides, community policing should be introduced ecologically that is there should not any rigid rules that are followed in every region but should be specific to the community for whom the policing is introduced.