ABSTRACT
Community policing is a popular term worldwide that has drawn the intensive attention of academics in the United Kingdom (Bennett, 1994; Friedmann, 1992; Schaer, 1980), Canada (Leighton, 1994; Hornick, 1993; Murphy & Muir, 1985), the United States (Bayley & Sheering, 1997; Das, 1987; Goldstein, 1990; Kelling, 1988; Greene, 1989; Rosenbaum, 1994; Skogan, 1990; Skogan, 2000; Skogan & Hartnett, 1997; Trojanowicz & Bucqueroux, 1994), and even in Asian cities such as Singapore (Quah & Quah, 1987) and Hong Kong (Lau, 2004; Lo & Cheuk, 2003).
