NCJ Number
142627
Date Published
1990
Length
72 pages
Annotation
This volume documents the experiences of Edmonton Police Service officers who participated in the city's community policing experiment. The project was centered around three components: the neighborhood foot patrol constable, the storefront office, and the citizen advisory committee.
Abstract
In an effort to restore contact between police officers and citizens, which had been lost as a result of the shift from peacemaking in the broad sense to crime fighting in particular, the Police Service promoted a return to community policing. The neighborhood foot patrol was initiated with positions for 21 constables assigned to the areas which had placed the most calls for service in the previous year. The officers aim to work with the community on problem solving and to decentralize calls from headquarters to the beat office. The individual chapters in this volume describe in detail the responsibilities and responses of the foot patrol constable, the role of volunteers and the beat office in community policing, the reaction of people in the various neighborhoods to community policing, and unique features of some of the Edmonton neighborhoods involved in the project.