The Need for Innovative

Policing
The fundamental principles policing remain as valid today as they
were a hundred years ago: keeping the peace, enforcing the law
and protecting property.

A number of factors combine to increase the complexity of the

current policing landscape:
First: crime has become increasingly global and sophisticated in
nature.
Second: public expectation has grown; improvements in customer
service across both the public sector and private sector have
resulted in higher citizen expectations.
Finally: global austerity challenges have increased budgetary
constraints and enforce new levels of financial accountability.

Considering the need to achieve more for less, police forces

must adopt a new way of thinking. Whether better managing
information to deliver improve investigative outcomes or using
innovative technologies, processes and insight to improve
operational performance, policing organizational need fresh,
practical ideas to improve the service they provide while reducing
cost.
 Innovative Policing

I. Community Policing
1. Deploy law enforcement professionals to work in and around
schools. The primary responsibility is to enhance the safety of
all students in the school.
2. Additional officers to effectively respond to street-based drug
dealing in the city and dilapidated housing from which dealers
operate.
3. Use technology to put more officers in neighborhoods.
A Microsoft access database to be created to transfer dispatched
call information, but only complainant and address data could be
retrieved.
4. Builds a Future without bullying. A community Oriented
Policing System (COPS) School-Based Partnership among
students, police, and school personnel to conduct a needs
assessment in the school, designed to determine the
prevalence of gang activity and bullying and the availability of
services and activities.
5. Reduced Vandalism. The idea of curfew hours with the
primary is to goal is to provide residents with a positive and safe
environment with the following objectives:
A. Prevent death or serious bodily injury to a student.
B. Reduce the incidence of vandalism and criminal mischief by
students.
C. Create a safe environment for students and residents to
enjoy.
6. Reclaims Distressed Neighborhoods. The police
gather information and identified the main crime
problems through numerous contacts with community
residents through meetings, ride-along activities, and
informal interviews.
7. Automates Processes to Put Officers on Patrol
Objectives:
a. Reduce the time patrol officers spent away from field
preparing reports.
b. Reduce the time sergeants spent at the station
engaged in administrative tasks.
c. Improve report accuracy and overall quality.
d. Create more time for community policing.
8. Fights Alcohol on Campus
Responses designed to reduce alcohol-related disturbances:
A. Education
B. Alternatives to alcohol-oriented events
C. Changes in residence policies.

Alcohol education initiatives were targeted responses aimed specifically at the

times and places that had traditionally been problem areas.

9. Active neighborhood associations assisting the police concerning a wide

variety of community problems. These organizations continue to be actively
involved in identifying and solving crime, traffic, and disorder problems in the
community.
The two main objectives are the ff:
1. Create distinct neighborhoods throughout the city and foster a
sense of neighborhood identity and ownership among the
residents.
2. Assign every officer, regardless of his or her primary
assignment, to at least one neighborhood.

II. Broken Windows Theory

the term “Broken windows” comes from the metaphor used to
described this concept: “If a window is broken and left unrepaired,
people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in
charge.” This theory says that the little things matter.

The “broken window” is a symbol of unaccountability. If one

window in a building is broken and left unfixed, it is likely that the
rest of the windows will be broken soon, too.
III. Problem-oriented policing
This is an approach to policing in which discrete pieces of police
business (each consisting of a cluster of similar incidents, whether
crime or acts of disorder, that the police are expected to handle) are
subject to microscopic examination (drawing on the especially hones
skills of crime analysts and the accumulated experience of operating
field personnel) in hopes that what is freshly learned about each
problem will lead to discovering a new and more effective strategy for
dealing with it.

The Key Elements of Problem-Oriented Policing

1. A problem is the basic unit of police work rather than the crime, a
case, calls or incidents.
2. A problem is something that concerns or causes harm to citizens,
not just the police.
3. Addressing problems means more than quick fixes: it means
dealing with conditions that create problems.