How does "Community Policing"
by the public police differ from
"Neighborhood Policing" provided by the
Patrol Special Police Officers?
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POLICING PUBLIC POLICE |
NEIGHBORHOOD POLICING PATROL SPECIAL POLICE |
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Trained in a culture of law enforcement involving law
enforcement and protection first, service second. |
1. |
Trained in a culture of care with service first,
including protection. |
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Derives from government/public
policing
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Derives from client and
community |
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3. |
Proves police are part of
society as much
as part of government
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3. |
Patrol Special Police Officers
are already part of society, not part of government |
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Re-directs public
police from law enforcement from the top
down, to involving/listening to the community. |
4. |
Already directed at crime
prevention and order; already listens to clients &
community. |
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Must provide this while
still providing law enforcement
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Almost
100% time devoted to crime
prevention/order maintenance with some enforcement
in emergencies as SFPD backup |
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With off
duty SFPD Officers, community policing is done on overtime at
high cost. |
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Full-time job is
neighborhood policing |
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Must serve large district
or service area; cannot focus on one small service
area or beat
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Focus on one small service
area or beat |
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Subject to interruption by paperwork, and responding to
citizen calls |
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Maintains necessary and
efficient paperwork; responds to client/neighborhood
incident calls in small area |
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Invisible, often out of
district; slower response time
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Visible in district; fast
response time |
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SFPD subject to
attrition/turnover
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Many Patrol Special Police Officers have 20-40 yrs. of service, some 20+ yrs.
serving one client |
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Must re-learn
democratic/participatory model service
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Nature of service from
start is democratic and participatory |
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Defensive posture is tradition/nature of operation |
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Receptive, friendly posture is tradition/nature of
operation
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Requires the empowerment of citizens to allow them to
begin the process of policing themselves. |
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Clients/citizens already empowered and part of the
policing process from initiation of service. |
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All of the research into CP shows that the most
important factor in any city conversion (from
traditional incident-driven law enforcement) to CP, is a
change in the way the city leaders interact. (According
to website City of Monrovia, CA) |
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The only need for NP is that city leaders minimize
regulatory interference and standardize day-to-day
program administrative interpretation of regulations.
This permits maximum and desirable marketing and
education efforts to let citizens know about the NP
safety option, and to provide a reasonable amount of
tools to make PSP as effective as possible.
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