Towards Community-Based Policing

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The paper speaks about a community-based strategy, that allows police to trust citizens and citizens to trust, in contrast to traditional authoritarian modes of policing. The paper explores several models of community-based policing in the world, with a focus on Jamaica.

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"In recent times, community-based policing, especially in the Western World, particularly in the United States and the UK, has been the preferred way of crime fighting. It has been accepted, however, that because of the differences in cultures, politics and economic infrastructure of societies, there may be some problems in introducing some of these measures that are designed to be more "people-oriented". Nevertheless, while resources may be one problem along with political and economic differences, there is also that problem of social acceptance of measures to be imported into a culture where the citizenry are wary of the intentions of the police force, as in Jamaica."

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