NCJ Number
109232
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Dated: (Winter 1987) Pages: 172-180
Date Published
1987
Length
9 pages
Annotation
Police all over the world are trying to regain the lost confidence of the public. Modern technologies have widened the gap between police and public. Response methods have not improved the growing feeling of insecurity. The article describes five different approaches of the Hamburg, West Germany, State Police.
Abstract
They include pure information about crime prevention, liaison with a major ethnic minority group, education of school children, means to improve subjective feelings of insecurity, and greater efforts of crime combat in a specific field of juvenile delinquency. All these attempts are aimed at better work performance and greater acceptance by the public and at the same time helping to reduce the evergrowing amount of registered crimes. (Publisher abstract)