S T R I C T L Y

C O N FI D E NT I A L
Course Community Patrol Officer
Module: Title Module 1: Community Policing
Sub-Module: Title Module 1a: Community Policing
Presented by the Defined
Specialised Tactical Training Institute cc Author: © Heinrich J. van Eck
as community initiative www.stti-sa.com

MODULE 1A: COMMUNITY POLICING

DEFINED

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 S T R I C T L Y
C O N FI D E NT I A L
Course Community Patrol Officer
Module: Title Module 1: Community Policing
Sub-Module: Title Module 1a: Community Policing
Presented by the Defined
Specialised Tactical Training Institute cc Author: © Heinrich J. van Eck
as community initiative www.stti-sa.com

Table of Contents
Defining Community Policing .................................................................................................................. 3
Defining the 10 Community-Policing Principles...................................................................................... 3
Accountability ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Change ................................................................................................................................................ 3
Trust .................................................................................................................................................... 3
Vision................................................................................................................................................... 3
Partnership.......................................................................................................................................... 3
Empowerment .................................................................................................................................... 3
Problem Solving .................................................................................................................................. 4
Leadership ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Equity .................................................................................................................................................. 4
Service ................................................................................................................................................. 4

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 S T R I C T L Y
C O N FI D E NT I A L
Course Community Patrol Officer
Module: Title Module 1: Community Policing
Sub-Module: Title Module 1a: Community Policing
Presented by the Defined
Specialised Tactical Training Institute cc Author: © Heinrich J. van Eck
as community initiative www.stti-sa.com

Defining Community Policing

Community Policing is an organization-wide philosophy and management approach that promotes

partnerships, proactive problem solving, and community engagement to address the causes of crime, the fear
of crime, and other community issues.

Defining the 10 Community-Policing Principles

Accountability

Accountability refers to mutual accountability.

In community policing, the community holds police officers accountable for their actions, and the
police hold the community accountable for shouldering its share of the responsibility for promoting
and maintaining public safety and the overall quality of life.

Change
Change drives organizations and individuals to view the transition to community policing as an
opportunity to improve the way police deliver their service.
Community policing changes should result from strategic planning, which involves all employees,
government officials, and community members.

Trust
Trust is the conviction that people mean what they say.
A community Policing organization must demonstrate that it has integrity and that it follows through
on its promises to the community.
Trust reduces the mutual suspicions that police and community members harbor.
Trust allows the police and the community to collaborate.

Vision
Vision is creating an ideal, a grand image of how to improve security and the quality of life through
community policing.
This vision, which should include community members’ core values, should provide the inspiration,
motivation, and authority to achieve short-term and long-term community-policing goals.
Community policing vision is an entirely new philosophy and management approach that influences
organizational policies, procedures, and practices.

Partnership
Partnership supports the development of collaborative relationships between individuals and
organizations.
Developing community policing partnerships is an organizational philosophy and strategy.

Empowerment
Empowerment is the act of creating an opportunity for shared power and ownership.

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 S T R I C T L Y
C O N FI D E NT I A L
Course Community Patrol Officer
Module: Title Module 1: Community Policing
Sub-Module: Title Module 1a: Community Policing
Presented by the Defined
Specialised Tactical Training Institute cc Author: © Heinrich J. van Eck
as community initiative www.stti-sa.com

Community policing in a police organization gives line personnel greater autonomy (freedom to make
decisions).
In the community, community policing allows citizens to share police decisions and responsibilities
with the police, as well as their thoughts about which problems are important and more.

Problem Solving
Problem solving is a collaborative, analytical process for identifying specific community
situations/events and their causes and tailoring responses to those events.
Problem solving involves an organization-wide commitment to transcend traditional police responses
to crime and, in creative and innovative ways, address the multitude of problems eroding the quality
of life.

Leadership
Leadership involves constantly emphasizing and reinforcing community policing vision, values, and
mission in an organization.
Leaders must support and articulate the commitment to community policing as the dominant way of
doing business in the organization.
Leaders serve as role models for taking risks and building collaborative relationships that implement
community policing in the

Equity
Equity in the delivery of police service recognizes that all community members will receive the same
level of effective, respectful police service, regardless of race, gender, religious belief, income, and
any other difference.
Community policing also recognizes the special needs of populations like women, the elderly, and
juveniles.

Service
Service is community policing’s commitment to providing decentralized and personalized police
service to neighborhoods according to the intensities and types of services the neighborhoods need.
To serve neighborhoods properly, the police must value community members as "customers."
By viewing community members as clients, the police can learn, through empathic listening, which
services are most needed and when.

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