Community Policing is a collaborative effort between a police department and community that identifies problems of crime and disorder and involves all elements of the community in the search for solutions to these problems. It is founded on close, mutually beneficial ties between police and community members. At the center of community policing are three essential and complementary core components:

Partnerships between the police and the community.

Problem Solving as a method to identify and solve problems of concern to the community.

Change Management within the police organization to accommodate increased community involvement.

Community Policing is a PHILOSOPHY for doing police work; PROBLEM SOLVING (P.O.P.) is the tactic or strategy used to solve community problems of crime and decay; and PARTNERSHIPS are the tool or means with which the problem solving takes place.

Challenges for Community Policing in South Africa. In reality ‘the community’ is not a uniform, definable entity: communities are extremely divided with little commonalties in terms of needs and aspirations. It is, therefore, by no means clear to whom safety and security strategists are responding when they invoke ‘the community’: this is of crucial operational importance ...

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