Compendium on good practices in community policing

Community policing is a philosophy. The core concepts in Community Policing are COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP and PROBLEM SOLVING. It is imperative on the part of the police to devise structural and functional frame work to ensure success of Community Policing initiative. The core elements of Community Policing can be deciphered by studying the existing successful Community Policing initiatives. This exercise was carried out to identify the most common elements in Community Policing initiatives and analyzed them.Community policing needs to be "issue-centric with a system backing and it can't be person-centric".

There are three basic elements essential in the structure of a Community Policing initiative. The integrity of any initiative is revealed through cohesion and interdependence of these three basic elements. This is the touchstone of integrity in any Community Policing initiative. Hence, it is imperative to understand the three basic elements of Community Policing initiatives. The following are the three core elements identified which provides integrity to Community Policing initiatives.