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Policing Advance Access originally published online on August 7, 2007
Policing 2007 1(2):161-172; doi:10.1093/police/pam033
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press.

The Role of Community Engagement in Neighbourhood Policing{dagger}

Ian Barnes* and Tania Eagle**

* Association of Police Authority's Policy Manager, 15 Greycoat Place, London SW1P 1BN, UK. E-mail: Ian.Barnes@lga.gov.uk
** Association of Police Authority's Acting Policy Director 15 Greycoat Place, London SW1P 1BN, UK

In this article, Ian Barnes and Tanya Eagle of the Association of Police Authorities discuss what in their view is the greatest challenge to sustaining neighbourhood policing: securing an improved alignment and balance between flexible and localized responsiveness with a centralized performance management process that fosters competition by rigorously comparing forces, Basic Command Units and partnerships with each other. This significant challenge to the police service demonstrates the increasingly important role police authorities need to play in balancing between national and local requirements within the context of an ever-tightening financial outlook.

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Following the successes in reducing crime levels dating back to the mid-1990s the Government and the police service grew frustrated at the lack of public recognition of their success. One theory that was put forward in an effort to explain why the gap in perception opened up was the ‘signal crimes’ theory, developed by Dr Martin Innes at the University of Surrey. The ‘signal crimes’ theory builds on work carried out in the United States in the early 1980s, that highlighted the impact of neighbourhood decay on people's perceptions, and became known as ‘broken windows’ (Wilson and Kelling in Parmar, 1998).

The implications of ‘signal crimes’ theory was to reconstitute criminal acts as communications signals and understand that low level acts of criminality could have a disproportionate impact on people's perceptions of crime and disorder in any given area (Innes et al., 2002, Innes, 2003). For example, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The nine principles of policing
 

   Reassurance policing
 

   Neighbourhood policing
 

   Broader discussions around participative democracy
 

   Participative democracy in neighbourhood policing
 

   Conclusions
 

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