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toubab1020
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 Posted - 16 Sep 2012 : 12:34:29
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When you read this article in the link to the Point you will read:"ensuring security through community policing" I think this is a great experiment that is underway, a new way of policing in Gambia with police who are based in the local community who know the community in which they serve and understand that community,ideally the police stationed there should live in the area which they police,sometimes that is not possible,perhaps because the necessary education,leadership skills, intimate knowledge of the local language and other factors are not present,future training can overcome these difficulties.If this experiment works it could mean that "The Police" are thought of as locals who understand and not as a force who are sometimes though of as just "enforcers".Hope the experiment works.
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/new-police-post-opens-at-primet-street
The words that follow are as true today as when they were first written.
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In 1829 Sir Richard Mayne wrote:
"The primary object of an efficient police is the prevention of crime: the next that of detection and punishment of offenders if crime is committed. To these ends all the efforts of police must be directed. The protection of life and property, the preservation of public tranquillity, and the absence of crime, will alone prove whether those efforts have been successful and whether the objects for which the police were appointed have been attained."
Police officer In attaining these objects, much depends on the approval and co-operation of the public, and these have always been determined by the degree of esteem and respect in which the police are held. One of the key principles of modern policing in Britain is that the police seek to work with the community and as part of the community.
http://www.met.police.uk/history/definition.htm
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Edited by - toubab1020 on 16 Sep 2012 12:40:26 |
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