Community Policing
Community Policing In San Diego
Nicole Jones
Grantham University
CJ 101
Abstract
I will discuss the methods and procedures of community policing used in my community; including neighborhood watch programs, volunteer police programs, and other options available to individual citizens. There are various roles and responsibility’s carried out by community policing programs. Depending on the neighborhood you live in is depending on how involved your neighborhood watch will be.
Community Policing In San Diego
To me community policing means that citizens take an active role in trying to identify crimes in progress and criminal elements in their vicinity. To explain it simply average citizens working with professional law enforcement to help bring justice to the community in which they live, work, or frequent. A variety of ways exist in which such cooperation between community members and professional law enforcement officials can exists, but I will focus on what is available in my community. I currently live in military housing, which utilizes private security.
I have spoken to the local sheriff’s office about the local communities and how they handle community policing. Most areas have a neighborhood watch programs in which citizens have meeting with police officers. During these meetings a variety of issues that are bothering local residents are discussed. The legality of such issues will be discussed with professional law enforcement. Local residents will discuss everything from children putting movable basketball goals in the road, to home invasions. Law enforcement officers also instruct residents on how to handle such crimes when you come across them, and how to report these crimes. Discussions also take place on how to look up issues that are of concern to the community, such as suspects at large. In the area I live most of the local police departments publish information about local fugitives, and persons of interest on the
Nicole Jones
Grantham University
CJ 101
Abstract
I will discuss the methods and procedures of community policing used in my community; including neighborhood watch programs, volunteer police programs, and other options available to individual citizens. There are various roles and responsibility’s carried out by community policing programs. Depending on the neighborhood you live in is depending on how involved your neighborhood watch will be.
Community Policing In San Diego
To me community policing means that citizens take an active role in trying to identify crimes in progress and criminal elements in their vicinity. To explain it simply average citizens working with professional law enforcement to help bring justice to the community in which they live, work, or frequent. A variety of ways exist in which such cooperation between community members and professional law enforcement officials can exists, but I will focus on what is available in my community. I currently live in military housing, which utilizes private security.
I have spoken to the local sheriff’s office about the local communities and how they handle community policing. Most areas have a neighborhood watch programs in which citizens have meeting with police officers. During these meetings a variety of issues that are bothering local residents are discussed. The legality of such issues will be discussed with professional law enforcement. Local residents will discuss everything from children putting movable basketball goals in the road, to home invasions. Law enforcement officers also instruct residents on how to handle such crimes when you come across them, and how to report these crimes. Discussions also take place on how to look up issues that are of concern to the community, such as suspects at large. In the area I live most of the local police departments publish information about local fugitives, and persons of interest on the