Community Policing in Germany

Feltes, Thomas

doi:10.5771/9783845252698_219

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“…Relieved from other activities, they are able to put more energy and commitment into CP activities than regular patrol officers. The countries where the CP work is organized in this way have recorded greater confidence of citizens in the police, better cooperation between them, reduction in crime rates and active participation of citizens in solving local problems (Forman, 2004;Feltes, 2013;Lobnikar et al, 2015:512). On the introduction of specialized community policing officers, the respondents were asked: Is it necessary to establish com-munity policing officer positions in police stations?…”

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Community policing implementation in the Republic of Serbia: A view from the managers's perspective

Milidragović¹,

Milić²,

Dragović³

2020

Nauka bezbednost policija

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Activities aimed at bringing the police closer to the local community and promoting the building of partnerships and common solutions to security problems are referred to as community policing. In the Republic of Serbia, community policing implementation formally started in 2003 through the 'Community Policing' project. After the initial period of implementation, community policing principles were expected to become part of the organizational culture of police organization and a distinctive feature of everyday police practice. Based upon research results presented in this paper, the authors sought to determine to what extent the concept of community policing came to fruition in Serbian police practice and how it works today. The research was directed towards the middle management of the Serbian police, where the sample included all regional police departments in Serbia. The paper concluded that at the time this research was conducted, community policing was not sufficiently implemented in the Serbian police practice, that reactive work still dominated over prevention and proactive work, the organizational structure did not allow greater representation of CP activities, there was a need for additional training of police officers and the legislation which could facilitate partnership between the police and the community was missing.

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Section: Figure 3 Respondents' Opinion On the Representation Of Prevmentioning

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Community policing implementation in the Republic of Serbia: A view from the managers's perspective

Milidragović¹,

Milić²,

Dragović³

2020

Nauka bezbednost policija

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“…Communities and security : police and ethnic minorities (Hunold et al, 2016), insecurities in European cities (Sessar et al, 2007), and community policing (Feltes, 2012)…”

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Crime, crime control and criminology in Germany

Boers

Walburg

Kanz

2017

European Journal of Criminology

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This article provides an overview of the situation of crime, crime control and criminology in Germany. Official crime data, victimization studies and self-reported delinquency studies consistently indicate that crime rates have been rather low in recent years, and that the amount of crime has decreased in recent years with respect to violent as well as most non-violent offences. In contrast, increasing right-wing extremist violence and Islamist terrorism are a cause for concern. After a long decline, fear of crime has recently started to increase again for certain offences such as burglary. An increase in punitive attitudes or punishment styles cannot generally be observed, and the prison rate is comparatively low. The situation of criminology in Germany is ambivalent: on the one hand, promising research is being conducted; on the other hand, the implementation of criminology within universities has been cut back.

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“…Therefore, the perceived advantages of prevention and community involvement over law enforcement led to the re-interpretation of the concept of “community policing”. More precisely, as police forces became more aware of CP-UDP (Book and Schneider, 2010; Macdonald and Kitteringham, 2004; McCauley and Opie, 2007; Feltes, 2013) and as CP-UDP increasingly included a community intervention component (Cleveland and Saville, 2003, Plaster Carter, 2002; Sarkissian et al , 2003), it became apparent that strategic local partnerships could be effective in identifying main public safety concerns, setting integrated strategic priorities and ultimately reducing crime. As Feltes (2013) points out, this is not a new policing method, rather a new philosophy of how policing should be carried out.…”

Section: Community and Crime Preventionmentioning

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“…In the UK, the Youth Design Against Crime programme (Davey et al , 2012) included a major component of interaction of youth with “police mentors”. Feltes (2013) thus identifies two common results of community policing models: the links between police, communities and citizens are exacerbated, therefore bettering law enforcement, citizen satisfaction and quality of life; and the police’s ability to systematically identify and analyse problems in the community is improved, thus producing a better judgement of who is most able to deal with them, and how. …”

Section: Community and Crime Preventionmentioning

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“…Looking at the reality of South America, Marquardt (2012) asks whether participation can ever be fully inclusive and equal, because imbalanced and exclusionary geographies of participation do not respond to the needs of marginalized urban residents and socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This tendency towards exclusion, that can create a stigmatised reality allegedly legitimised by the community, was also denounced by Dammert (2006), and Feltes (2013) in the European context. According to Crawford (1994), participation should promote social cohesion which fosters social solidarities yet preserves a cosmopolitan acceptance of cultural and social differences.…”

Section: Community and Crime Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Model (my) neighbourhood – a bottom-up collective approach for crime-prevention in Portugal and Lithuania

Saraiva

Matijošaitienė

Diniz

et al. 2016

JPMD

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to respond to the need for comparative studies on methodologies for implementing Crime Prevention through Urban Design and Planning (CP-UDP) at the local level, particularly in peripheral Europe where CP-UDP’s top-down standards have poor dissemination and acceptance. This paper debates how local partnerships can help reduce crime and how a CP-UDP-based model can be introduced into municipal planning. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses the challenge of CP-UDP in the framework of a post-crisis Europe and Europe 2020. Because there is a large gap between theory and practice, lack of a shared holistic approach, and scepticism, or lack of knowledge, of public authorities, at local-level planning professionals and the police have devised bottom-up initiatives based on interdisciplinary partnerships with the community. The paper describes, discusses and compares the implementation of such approaches in Lisbon (Portugal) and Vilnius (Lithuania). Findings The paper addresses the processes and challenges of establishing synergies and working relationships between police officers, public officials and the community, and it discusses six main causes for its (un)success. When these conditions were met, crime and social constraints reduced. Practical implications Lessons learned are deemed crucial to disseminate knowledge and best practices, paving the way for proper top-down policies and planning legislations in these and other countries. Originality/value This paper analyses the potentialities and shortcomings of local-level implementation of CP-UDP strategies as an alternative to failed top-down strategies in two realities mostly unknown of the international scientific community. The case study material is previously unpublished internationally.

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Community Policing in Germany

Cited by 6 publications

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Community policing implementation in the Republic of Serbia: A view from the managers's perspective

Community policing implementation in the Republic of Serbia: A view from the managers's perspective

Crime, crime control and criminology in Germany

Model (my) neighbourhood – a bottom-up collective approach for crime-prevention in Portugal and Lithuania

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