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Community Policing in Canada

NCJ Number
185200
Editor(s)
James Chacko, Stephen E. Nancoo
Date Published
1993
Length
379 pages
Annotation
This is a collection of articles on community policing in Canada.
Abstract
The “new policing” in Canada seeks to increase interaction between police and public and to establish a strategic maintenance of community peace and security. The book is divided into 18 chapters, including: (1) Introduction; (2) The Development, Impact and Implications of Community Policing in Canada; (3) A Growing Canadian Consensus: Community Policing; (4) Strategy; (5) The Victoria Community Police Stations: An Exercise in Innovation; (6) Community-Based Policing and Organizational Change; (7) Innovation and Change in a Regional Police Force; (8) Police Mini-Stations in Toronto: An Experience in Compromise; (9) Community Problems, Problem Communities, and Community Policing in Toronto; (10) Community-Based Policing: A Process for Change; (11) Policing in the ‘90s and Beyond; (12) Community-Based Policing and Police/Community Relations; (13) Policing Native Communities: Some Principles and Issues in Organizational Theory; (14) The Police and the Community; (15) A Demographically Reflective Workforce for Canadian Policing; (16) The Evaluation of Community-Based Policing in Canada; (17) An Impact Evaluation of the Edmonton Neighborhood Foot-Patrol Program; and (18) Program Impacts: The Victoria Community Police Stations: A Three-Year Evaluation. References, notes, tables, figures