Traditional Policing Strategy

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with the direct or indirect influence of technology, policing keeps evolving to accommodate these rising needs.
There is a gradual shift from the traditional policing style of strategy to the current modern day strategy style. A view upheld by policing scholars such as John Murray, Chief Police Officer for the Australian Capital Territory. The traditional style is militaristic with a rank order while the modern style is less militaristic but still ranked and still evolving due to the mix of its work force skills. Despite the work force skills, every police need specific basic technical skills in computing forensics and informatics in cyber policing. The strategy in this area will require Cops that are adaptive as well as technologically savvy. …show more content…

Community policing was described as a myth of ideal urban life style because they are built on utopic expectations devoid of realism of the actual day to day policing. Community policing is therefore said to lack a knowledge base with which to inform effective local action. (Ratcliff 2008 quoting Robin 2000 p99, Brogden and Nijhar 2005 pp47-49). This statement is confusing when placed against the fact that Public / private organisations control the infrastructure that makes up cyberspace . It will appear that Ratcliff refers to a ‘compartmentalised society’ that is separate from day to day realities rather than the society of which both the police force and the public/private organisation who make up the society. The virtual communities identified shares the same concerns as the non-virtual communities. The recent leaking of personal details through the hacking of social networks raises the same issues of data protection. Cyber policing of virtual communities is not an isolated notion but one that spills into the physical communities and the police is more relevant in communities now than ever …show more content…

The exchange of information and intelligence was used to prioritise policing activities and channelling of fund appropriately. Within time the success of intelligence led policing was evident in crime reduction and prevention. Its success was copied and modified abroad especially post 9/12 terrorist attack. The knowledge that the terrorist attack was preventable but for the lack of exchange of intelligence between the CIA and the FBI led to a more focused means of collaboration between both law enforcement agencies. A multi-level risk management in the production of intelligence was advocated by the US department of Home Security. Intelligence was no longer the speciality of only law enforcement agents and crime analysts. A doctrine on Intelligence-Led Policing by Mark Riebling informs that ILD is modelled on the Israeli counter-terrorist tactics and the NYPD's Broken Windows policing theories. The publication focuses on problem solving, environmental design, community policing, and public-private partnerships (Riebling

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