ABSTRACT
Ever since the publication of Problem-Oriented Policing by Herman Goldstein (1979), the concept, development, and spread of this new approach to police practices in most progressive departments across the world has been a phenomenon. It has been suggested that, in the modern era, the most promising and effective response to the difficult challenges of policing in a free society is community policing (Sheehan and Cordner 1999). It has been promoted as a different way of doing policing that is effective in building bridges with the community. Many have described community-oriented policing as an old wine in new bottle (King and Lab 2000), but the experiments and applications that have evolved from this concept have far exceeded the original theme promoted by Robert Peel. Community policing has been seen as an attempt to bring the police closer to the community and make it more responsive to the citizens being served. In many places, it has even evolved to the extent of making the citizens coproducers of their own safety and security (Miller and Hess 2005).
