Throughout the history of civilization, societies have sought protection for their

members and possessions. A quest of protection lead to the existence of the policing system
which is meticulous to look into and covers a broad topic. The existence of policing system
give birth the police.
The police role in society has increasingly become a significant issue in
contemporary policing. The police begin to encompass a greater function considering the
complexity of the social problems and enormity of issues confronting peace and security.
Public expectations and organizational concerns demand innovative approaches to policing.
Criticisms from various sectors require police organization to assess current practices and
functions and align them with the needs and values of the community. Global experiences,
likewise, assert a shift in policing philosophy and operating style - from the traditional
incident-driven to a problem-focused, community based approach.
One of the major limitations of professional policing and its crime control policies is
the failure of the police to elicit the full cooperation and participation of community residents,
community organizations, and other agencies who share mutual responsibility for crime
prevention. Today, police officials and community leaders have introduced innovative
policies, strategies, programs, and schemes to remedy this shortcoming. Community
policing or problem-oriented policing is the latest and most popular innovation in the police
field in lieu of the traditional "911" approach. Progressive police organizations have realized
that they have to accomplish more aside from responding to citizen complaints and
emergencies by engaging in planned activities to prevent and reduce crime.
Most of States now a days have this what we called police. This includes the
Philippines and Iceland in which in the Philippines the police were called Philippine National
Police (PNP) while in Iceland they have the Icelandic Police . Both PNP and Icelandic
police can be considered centralized, multiple coordinated type of police structure for all
police activities in the country are operated by the State under one control in which the
Philippine National Police is headed by the Chief, PNP same as to the Icelandic Police
whose headed by the Minister of Justice which is the supreme commander of the police.
Although they are both centralized does not mean that they are all common in any way,
because they have differences specially in the organisational structure and rank
classification. The fact that the Icelandic Police have only 10 rank classification while the
Philippine National Police have 16 in terms of rank classification but this does not mean that
the country that has greater number in rank classification order reflects a better output.
Although the Icelandic Police have the small number in rank classification they still able to
uplift the image of their police force and not only uplift but able to do their duty than any
other country and what’s more fascinating is that they can do their job unarmed although
they are trained to use firearms in case of emergency and will only use force if needed to. It
was also possible, for their community are cooperative to the Icelandic Police and have this
trustful relationship with their police.
Philippine National Police have many community oriented program of these is the
D.A.R.E. Program. It is “designed to make youths feel good about the police…in hope that
they will later provide useful information about crime” (Weisburd & Braga, 2007, p. 57). It
gives young people with the necessary skills to make well-informed choices and to empower
them to say no when they are tempted to use alcohol, tobacco or drugs. Another component
of DARE helps students to recognize the dangers of violence in their schools and
community. D.A.R.E. “humanizes” the police: that is, young people can begin to relate to
officers as people. It allows students to see officers in a helping role, not just an enforcement
role. It also opens up the lines of communication between law enforcement and youth
Officers can serve as conduits to provide information beyond drug-related topics. But some
of the program aren’t put into reality as good as it was in the plan. It was because some
police department do not implement such things.
 Police brutality is a horrific normality and, in more ways than one, to be more specific is the
extra judicial killing that has become the modern-day equivalent of lynching and been rampant in
the Philippines . But, of course, it doesn’t have to be this way. A police officer does not have to shoot
to kill and, a police officer does not even have to carry a gun only when needed to. In Iceland, police
officers generally do not carry firearms following the principle of the British police that: “Constables
are placed in authority to protect, not to oppress, the public.” For officers to carry guns would not
just be unnecessary, but also antithetical to the values of civil society. Police in Iceland are generally
trained to de-escalate hostile situations and use minimal violence in response to a threat. So maybe
we can adapt this kind of management in the Philippines although a policy of unarmed police
officers clearly has a better chance of working in countries where citizens don’t have access to guns.
But what about in Iceland, where there are an estimated 90,000 guns in a population of 323,000?
The country has one of the lowest global crime rates in the world and, the BBC reports, the majority
of crimes that do occur don’t involve firearms. So in that situation maybe it can be applied in the
Philippines and would be possible specially if the corrupt or ninja cops in the line of the PNP as well
as those who do malfeasance and misfeasance would be totally eradicated. Also the making of
comprehensive plan that would help in earning the trust of the society and will make the
relationship between the PNP and community better that at some point the community will not
hesitate to ask help and will always cooperate with them. It will also be a good help if the training of
the PNP is longer than what we have today because even 1 year would not be enough to learn all
necessary things and information that would be useful in the said profession. Same as Iceland and
other countries who have a 3 years of training before they qualified for the position, for sure the
results would be the same if applied in the Philippines because 3 years will be enough for them to
learn new techniques, method and other things that is necessary in building a peaceful community
and prevent the occurrence of crimes.