ABSTRACT

Chapter 5 interprets and describes the significance of the findings on uncertainty, trust, and leadership in light of existing literature, and offers new understandings and insights into the goal of improving strategies that fail to integrate unique community dynamics and jeopardise sustainable trust with Muslim communities. As an evaluative case study, this chapter presents a summary of the findings with discussion that draws a number of evidence-based conclusions regarding the key elements of community engagement by police in Muslim communities. This chapter further highlights relationships in the data that seek to crystalise knowledge claims in relation to opportunities and pitfalls that determine the quality of community engagement by police in Muslim communities.