Thanks for the question Adam:
First, have your friend take a look at my article on oral inteviews - it will definately bump up his score!
http://www.hitechcj.com/tactics_oral_interviews.html
You are right, there are many different intrepations of Community Policing. Your best overal source for information is the Community Policing Website operated by the DOJ at:
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=36
HERE IS THERE DEFINITION:
Community policing focuses on crime and social disorder through the delivery of police services that includes aspects of traditional law enforcement, as well as prevention, problem-solving, community engagement, and partnerships. The community policing model balances reactive responses to calls for service with proactive problem-solving centered on the causes of crime and disorder. Community policing requires police and citizens to join together as partners in the course of both identifying and effectively addressing these issues.
Organizational Elements:
1. Philosophy Adopted Organization-Wide
2. Decentralized Decision-Making and Accountability
3. Fixed Geographic Accountability and Generalist Responsibilities
4. Utilization of Volunteer Resources
5. Enhancers
Tactical Elements:
1. Enforcement of Laws
2. Proactive, Crime Prevention Oriented
3. Problem-solving
External Elements:
1. Public Involvement in Community Partnerships
2. Government and Other Agency Partnerships
I think keys to an oral answer are:
1. Recognizing that calls for service, etc are symptons of a community problem.
2. Problem solving involves looking at methods and alternatives to measurable lessen (not necessarily completly get rid of) the problem; and standard police tactics like arrest, citation, etc are only one tool.
3. The police are experts at lots of law enforcement related stuff; but, most community problems are not law enforcement problems at their root. Therefore, creating partnership to solve problems is key to bringing proper resources to bear, as well as creating meaningful relationships in the community.
Good luck!
The core elements of community policing are described below:
Last edited on Wed Mar 7th, 2007 02:42 am by cjustice
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