Police Officer Attitudes and Community Policing Developing Strategies for Enduring Change: "Improving Police and Community Collaborative Partnerships."

Many in public are apathetic unless something occurs, they are mostly uninvolved and happy to be that way to engage in personal business of work, family, friends, and engagements.The police decision to engage in community policing, involving problem-solving, which is the common denominator with the public, have the first duty. That is to make it an all employee engagement, including the civilian members. Partial engagement is no engagement with those not so committed. Ensuring compliance is the responsibility of the CEO, and that individual must safeguard awareness, access for questions, and participation of members of the agency is cast in stone. How that is done is for the agency to determine.Engaging the Community.When the agency model is in place, bringing community members into the planning and commitment process, begins. Start with neighborhood leaders and invite them to a discussion. Unfolding conceptualizations, discussion of details, and encouraging input is critical, which in turn, becomes part of the collaborative planning process.Expand the committee by area, neighborhood, or other common division identifiers to give the eventual participants a way to conceptualize their areas of responsibility. This action is the first step! More explanation to follow in this book.