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Mangan's Model Of Community Policing

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Fundamentally, community policing changes all four of these dimensions in ways that change police officers’ relationships with the communities they serve. Philosophically, police officers and administrators adopt reorientations to their work, away from a ‘call-response’ model and towards a preventative, problem solving model. Police must be trained to shift their mindsets and become culturally willing and able to collaborate with their communities and be accountable to them. Administrators must ensure that agency training and structural changes prioritize community collaboration and transparency. Strategically, agencies’ forms and content must prioritize community-specific needs, the agency’s resources, as well as how to adjust resources and …show more content…

Based upon his assessment and vision, he developed goals that embodied his focus on improving the interface and interactions between the police and the community. If Mangan was setting strategic priorities, strategic planning would have been one of his first 'go to' places. Written in as much detail as possible, his strategic plan would contain specific, clear goals, followed by strategies and tactics related to achieving those goals. For example, strategies might include benefits for improving the interface and interactions between police and community, problem-oriented policing strategies, and partnership agreements with community organizations. This strategic plan would have been nimble, as it would have reorganized as efforts rolled out, based on formative evaluation and input from external community stakeholders. Chief Mangan would have known that, in instructing his directives on how to implement community policing strategies, he was placing great responsibility on the men and women on the streets. Ergo, it would be essential for Chief Mangan to dedicate copious amounts of his time and …show more content…

For example, a department might track levels of crime over time; a chief may even commission community satisfaction surveys; or evaluate the varied performances of officers, among other possibilities. Essentially, what this is about is departmental accountability, evaluation, and assessment to see whether community policing has been implemented in the department’s ongoing operations from the top

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