Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.

IN order to reduce the crime rate in residential areas, Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed said the residents could form a Community Policing programme in their neighbourhood.
A women's contingent of CRPF -- comprising 125 personnel -- left on Monday night for civil war stricken Liberia on the United Nations peacekeeping mission.
HOUMA — A Coteau teenager was arrested in connection with a stabbing in Ashland that left a man with a punctured lung, authorities said.
A Toronto police unit created in wake of the Jane Creba shooting sweeps into the city's high risk neighbourhoods. They stop people on the street, in parks, driving cars or in apartment stairwells. They are looking for guns, drugs or information that will lead them to gang-related crime.
Police Commissioner Stuart Bedics credits a focus on community policing as well as an increased use of cameras in high-crime areas.
Every good team needs a great leader. And these three PCs are some of the best beat managers in the region, as winners in the Community Policing Awards 2009.




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