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Community Policing History

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. Tracing the history of Community policing,
There are Compelling reasons why law enforcement leaders believe that time has come to alter the police and practice of their organization. These reasons are rooted in the history of policing and police research during the last quarter of a century in the changing nature of communities, in the shifting characteristics of crime and violence that affect these communities
Throughout history individuals have been expected to follow the rules of the majority, the demands to control the behavior of individuals can be traced to the ancient times when the tribe, clan or family controlled the behavior of the individuals and had the responsibility to enforce its informal rules or customs. This was the first …show more content…

They did not establish formalized police department as we know them today. The Roman model was more about policing of the 20th century than with the community policing philosophy, in that it was more reactive to incidents than proactive Policing in England (The Anglo Saxon Period). The Roman Empire expanded to the British Isles and maintained order through its legions, but with the collapse of the Roman Empire, Germanic Tribes, known as Anglo Saxons, invaded England. Unlike the Romans, who had written laws and a legislative body, the Germanic tribes had an unwritten law based upon tribal customs. Eventually the Anglo Saxons culture fused with the Roman culture. The Anglo Saxons developed a peace keeping system for England. The concept of the King’s peace, evolved whereby the King assured the people of the state of security and peace in return for their allegiance to him. The peace keeping system revolved around land ownership thus law and order was considered a community responsibility as it is in community policing today. Upon the Norman invasion of England in 1066, the Anglo Saxons come under the Normans Peace keeping was more important than individual’s right. The Normans centralized the peace keeping system under the crown and they revised the Anglo Saxons system of peace keeping in …show more content…

The paid night watch constables and thief takers all exemplify poor policing strategies that failed by employing incompetent individuals who do not effectively perform good policing which resulted to the creation of poor relations within the community.
In the Eighteenth Century, the term police began to be used much to the disappointment of many English men. One contributor was Henry Fielding, who was appointed as a Magistrate to Bow Street in 1848. He conceived the idea of crime prevention as a role for the police. He believed that controlling crime required the cooperation of the public, a strong police force and the elimination of the causes, thus considered community policing philosophy, considered crime prevention as an important element of policing

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