Community Policing Executive Summary

Garland (2014), stated “that recurring solutions to the problem of the limitations of the criminal justice state has been the effort to relocate the work of crime control in the community. There is no community without any type of crime. This is always going to be a challenge to the chief of police. Community policing and crime prevention in particular sought to enlist the support of voluntary agencies, business and residents groups, harnessing the social control efforts of these bodies and aligning them with the efforts of the official crime control agencies” (p.123)

Education and knowledge is a powerful tool that helps in a community. The first is to educate my city council, the city mayor, and the city manager as well as the community as to my strategy about policing which is define by wiki as “Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime” Addressing the community by organizing a police and residents meeting will be my first approach where we can get to know each other , know the business owners and operations , organizations

The benefits of the planning will enable my department in the organization to: (1) prepare for contingencies that could prevent it from attaining its goals, (2) prepare a framework for the organization’s orderly growth and progress, and (3) have a strategy for the allocation of resources in a manner that will allow the organization to meet its goals. These are what my 12 months strategic plan will focus on: Where are we now? Where do we want to be? How do we get there? and how do we measure our