Deniz KocakThinkers

Community policing is dependent upon an increase of foot patrols by police officers to show police presence on the streets and to enable the residents to approach the police officers with their concerns.

Community policing is not only a technique but also a specific philosophy and mindset of how to approach underlying causes for social conflict, violence, and poverty, of how to treat and how to police the population in line with the principles of fundamental human rights.

Community policing is a brand of 'soft policing' that sets its focus on proactive engagement with the public and therefore entails the ability of the police officer to mediate and communicate reasonably with her or his respective counterpart.

Community policing is concerned with leaving behind purely reactive, emergency-based traditional approaches grounded in social alienation between the police and the community toward a proactive form of policing based on the trustful cooperation between the police and the population, according to the community's unique needs.

Community policing is the idea that, through active and continued communication with the local residents, the police would be able to identify the most pressing problems of the respective neighborhood and try to cooperatively find workable and sustained solutions