Overview
Community policing is a relatively new strategy in policing that aims at preventing occurrence of crimes. It is implemented through creating equal partnerships between communities and police departments. Community policing democratizes police departments moving them away from being police forces to police services. The relationship between the members of the public and the police has been historically poor a fact that has led to increased crime rates. In such an environment, community members deny the police important information on crime and criminals. Such a problem can be solved by a well implemented community policing program with a strong foundation of mutual trust between police officers and community members. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence implementation of community based policing in Kenya. The study investigated influence of attitude, funding, vigilantism and training on implementation of community based policing. It was informed by labeling theory which is a branch of symbolic interaction theory. According to the theory, if the community and the police perceive community policing as a failed program, then it becomes difficult to make it a success. Descriptive survey research design was used since it aims at describing an existing phenomenon. The study targeted a population of 405 community policing members in 27 community policing committees and a sample size of 217 respondents was taken.
Sponser
Mwangi, Danson M.
Principal Investigator
Abstract
Community policing is a relatively new strategy in policing that aims at preventing occurrence of crimes. It is implemented through creating equal partnerships between communities and police departments. Community policing democratizes police departments moving them away from being police forces to police services. The relationship between the members of the public and the police has been historically poor a fact that has led to increased crime rates. In such an environment, community members deny the police important information on crime and criminals. Such a problem can be solved by a well implemented community policing program with a strong foundation of mutual trust between police officers and community members. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence implementation of community based policing in Kenya. The study investigated influence of attitude, funding, vigilantism and training on implementation of community based policing. It was informed by labeling theory which is a branch of symbolic interaction theory. According to the theory, if the community and the police perceive community policing as a failed program, then it becomes difficult to make it a success. Descriptive survey research design was used since it aims at describing an existing phenomenon. The study targeted a population of 405 community policing members in 27 community policing committees and a sample size of 217 respondents was taken.
