Community policing and security status of people in urban areas. a case study of Muyenga Parish Makindye Division
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2015-09
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Kampala International University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
This chapter included the introduction, background to the study, problem statement, objectives of the study, research questions, scope of the study, significance and the conceptual framework to show the dependent and independent variables.
The concept of community policing has been defined by many scholars and practitioners in various ways. Among these conceptual definitions are the institutional. According to the Uganda Police Annual Crime Report (2012), crime and social disorder is the focus of community policing. This is achieved through service delivery which includes aspects of regular law
enforcement, prevention, problem solving, as well as community engagement and partnership.
Community policing model try to strike a balance between reactive responses with proactive
problem solving specifically on the causes of crime and disorder, community policing is essentially about partnership between the police and the citizens. Partnership in this case would mean each party having an agreed stake in the affairs of community policing, but is this the case, the amount of intervention of both the police and community in policing is not known, what is
practiced in many Ugandan areas is sensitization programmes as little more than community
policing quackery, consisting of pre-crime interventions that are based on neither existing
knowledge of the causes of crime or existing knowledge of what programmes are known to
change offender behavior.
Security can be defined as the state of being in which individuals or groups may pursue their
ends without disruption or harm and without fear of loss or injury. Further, to the organisation it
implies being able to continue in business activities without disruption from either criminal
threats or natural catastrophe. From this, it should be recognized that security has two bases: that
of the individual or group and as it applies to or concerns an organisation. Maintenance of
security and good order in the community is now being undertaken by organizations traditionally
known as ‘police’, although we are witnessing an increasing trend towards the use of privately
funded bodies, commonly refened to as ‘private security’. Whilst this development is concerning
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A research dissertation submitted to the College Of Humanities And Social Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and Social Administration of Kampala International University
Keywords
Community policing, Security status, People, Urban areas, Muyenga Parish, Makindye Division