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Community Policing - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Is a chance for citizens to have a conversation with the police and express themselves. It also an opportunity for the police to give advice and information to the community
- - - - The ''Special Constable'' are another very good illustraiton of the importance of community policing in the UK
        
        SC are units of volunteers created during WW1 when a lot of policemen had to figt in europe
        
        SP support their local police, forming a vital link between the regularp olice and the local community
        
        Same power as regular officers
        
        Basic eligibily requirements : name as for the regular police
        
        Situational Judgement test where candidates are asked to rate the effectiveness of response options to a numer of scenario
- - - - Requires the police and citizens to join together as partners
      - Seeks to be responsive to community demands through consultation
      - Foot patrol is an important feature
      - SRP believed in crime prevention rather than relying on punishment as a deterrent = proactive policing
        
        Officers patrolled the streets on foot and met with the beat sergeant at prearranged points
        
        A ''beat'' is the terroritory and the time that a police officer patrols
      - SRP policemen were soon nicknamed ''bobbies''
        
        still today the bobby is viewed as the symbol of community policing, he is a policeman who is familiar with the area that he patrols and with its residents