The Power Of The People: How Community Policing Is Changing Birmingham

Webincreased reporting of crime committed in private spaces, often against the most vulnerable in our communities, coupled with new and emerging threats means that. Webthere have been critical advances in several fields of policing, including: Child protection and sensitivity to the needs of the most vulnerable;. Webcrucial to the latter is the key principle of policing by consent which requires engagement that is transparent and ethical and a workforce that is a reflection of the communities. Community policing evolved partly as a recognition that forces were losing their sense of what communities valued.

This has been a result, in part, of a policy of chief police officers to realign operational policing to. This article presents findings from a study conducted in the west midlands (uk) which builds on brunson and miller's (2006).