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Opinion |
Neighbourhood Policing: Short-term Success or Long-term Revolution?
* Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police and Vice President of the Association of Chief Police Officers.
Matt Baggott is Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police and Vice President of the Association of Chief Police Officers. He leads on the delivery of the national roll of neighbourhood policing with a full-time team based in London. In this article he discusses the reintroduction of the public into policing schemes, looking forward to the strategic challenges of introducing the programme and considering what lessons can be learnt from recent initiatives.
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When the history of the ‘neighbourhood policing’ programme is written, judgement upon success or failure will be determined either through its definition as a time-based initiative, or alternatively, as a fundamental reshaping of the outlook, skills, and social importance of the modern Police Service. In the former, the microscope will be applied simply to the speed of recruitment and rollout of Police Community Support Officer PCSO enhanced teams, together with some historic benchmarking of levels of crime, confidence and antisocial behaviour. All the current indicators suggest that success under this definition is highly likely, at least in the relatively short term.
In the alternate scenario, the telescope will witness a new culture of policing embedded in regeneration, cohesion and added social value, together with a new and business-like appreciation of the ‘market place’ of crime and vulnerability. In other words, the very role and essence of policing is that of
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