Getting Organized and Putting the Pieces Together

 (need in 6 hours)

The police and citizens often have different viewpoints about community policing. Community policing can be very labor intensive and the police of often have numerous different types of pressure on them from a variety of locations within the jurisdiction.

For this week’s assignment you are to evaluate how a police agency should deal with the multitude of different types of requests for service that they have and still be able to engage in a robust community-policing effort. Assess how a well-functioning community-oriented policing program can lessen the stress on law enforcement manpower. Determine how the police and citizen groups can effectively communicate with each other.