NCJ Number: 184559
Title: What Does Community Policing Mean for Daily Police Work?
Journal: National Institute of Justice Journal Issue:225 Dated:August 1992 Pages:23-27
Series: NIJ Journal
Author(s): Stephen D. Mastrofski
Date Published: August 1992
Page Count: 5
Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Type: Report (Study/Research)
Format: Article
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Annotation: This article focuses on how community policing affects police
officers' daily work, including how they spend their time, with
whom, and for how long.
Abstract: The new NIJ study builds on previous NIJ research, most of it
concentrated on a well-established tactic of community policing,
i.e., foot patrol. After reviewing foot patrol studies in Newark,
NJ; Flint, Mich.; Edmonton, Alberta; and Oakland, Calif., this
article describes the upcoming NIJ study, which will use
direct-observation techniques to determine how foot patrol
strategies have been implemented. The study will focus on a
single municipal police department that will have been involved
for at least a year in two aspects of community policing:
community outreach and problem solving. The department will have
taken a "generalist" approach to community policing rather than
focusing on a small specialist unit. Patrol officers will be
observed throughout the city for approximately 100 full work
shifts. In addition, ride along observations of patrol supervisors
will be conducted for approximately 10 full shifts. The study
will differ from previous observational studies in two major
ways. First, in addition to officer encounters with the public,
all other police activities will be noted as well, including roll
call, time to dispatched assignments, general patrol, traffic
patrol, crime-focused strategies, and information gathering. Second, from most previous studies is the systematic debriefing of observed officers about their decision making in the observed encounters. 7
notes
Main Term(s): Police job task analysis
Index Term(s): Community policing; Foot patrol; Police responsibilities
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