Community-oriented policing, law enforcement, community relations, recommendations, multicultural society, diversity training, workplace, police, patrol, officer, community members, soft skills, community settings, law state
Community-oriented policing (COP) explains the principle that promotes institutional strategies that back the general utilization of unions and problem-resolution methods to actively deal with the direct circumstances causing public safety problems. Law enforcement refers to the activity of making sure there is the availability of security for citizens to live normally, according to the country's lawful structure. Consequently, law enforcement has to liaise with communities they are accountable for to successfully deal with community issues and crime. Our world is full of many multicultural communities today, so law enforcement officers must know how to effectively navigate such diverse communities for community policing to succeed. This paper seeks to show how law enforcement officers play vital roles in COP and how they can successfully maintain community relations in multicultural societies. The study has incorporated the use of secondary data from different literature to learn more about COP and the implementation of COP in multicultural communities. It has been found that law enforcement plays different roles, like promoting public trust and increasing the accessibility of community members to policing approaches under COP. It is recommended for law enforcement agencies to implement effective diversity training and workplace diversity to promote their relations with multicultural communities.
[...] Most importantly, the superiors must constantly ensure the trained officers have succeeded in learning how to effectively interact with diverse community members. They can do that by constant monitoring, observation, and repeated training of the trainees so they learn the needed skills to deal with multicultural communities. They can constantly change their workplaces to ensure they only work with culturally competent officers who know how to deal with diverse community members well. The superiors must constantly organize diversity training for the officers to enable them to learn how to identify, acknowledge, and respect the differences among individuals in diverse community settings. [...]
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[...] Not to forget, poor cultural sensitivity on the part of officers could promote unintentional effects and violence. These negative effects greatly hinder the development of great relationships between law enforcement officers and community members. When that happens, COP becomes ineffective in solving community challenges and crime to a great extent. Law enforcement officers at the federal, state, and local levels can engage in various actions to promote community relations in our current multicultural society. The training strategies of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers should emphasize successful diversity training and soft skills development (Martinez, 2018). [...]
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[...] By developing links and enhancing mutual trust between community individuals and law enforcement, COP proves to be extra-effective for curbing community crime. Under COP, the police carry out 'foot patrol' whereby they walk around neighborhoods several times ("Community-oriented policing and problem-oriented policing," n.d.). They do that for security purposes to observe if anything harmful is taking place in neighborhoods so they can take necessary measures if so. The major objective of the activity is to raise the visibility of these law enforcement officials within communities and increase contacts and bonds with community members. [...]
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