As police and community leaders have been looking for more efficient ways to enhance public safety and improve the quality of life in their areas, the movement toward community policing has gained traction in recent years. One of the main goals of this search has been to improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods. Chiefs, sheriffs, and other police authorities are now conducting an assessment to determine what changes in orientation, organization, and operations will enable them to improve the quality of the services that they provide to the communities that they are responsible for protecting. Community policing spans a wide range of theoretical and operational perspectives, and it is still in the process of quickly developing. Community …show more content…
The first step in an initiative to bring community policing into sharper focus is being taken by the Community Policing Consortium with the publication of Understanding Community Policing. Although it is not a finished product, the document compiles and analyzes the essential aspects of community policing in order to facilitate the learning process, as well as to provide a framework for the experimentation and modification that are necessary to make community policing effective. Representatives from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the National Sheriffs' Association, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), and the Police Foundation are part of the Community Policing Consortium, which was established and is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) of the United States Department of Justice. Other members of the consortium include the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The BJA entrusted the Consortium with the responsibility of conceiving of a conceptual framework for community policing and aiding other agencies in the process of putting community policing into …show more content…
This conversation is made easier by the Community Policing Consortium, which offers direct training and technical assistance to the demonstration sites, acts as a repository for information pertaining to community policing, and serves as a resource for state, county, and municipal police agencies that are interested in learning more about community policing and its implementation. As the practice of community policing develops, the BJA and the Community Policing Consortium will collaborate to develop a variety of products. One of these will be a community policing implementation guide, which will include training materials and curricula, as well as a selection of case studies and anecdotal experiences to illustrate the challenges and results of community policing endeavors. Another product will be a community policing evaluation tool, which will provide an assessment of the effectiveness of the BJA. With the help of BJA, the Consortium will also build and distribute a complete resource directory as well as a bibliography of community policing literature and