Traditionally law enforcement agencies have used arrest, citations written, the

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Traditionally law enforcement agencies have used arrest, citations written, the number of reports written and other statistical data to evaluate an officer’s effectiveness. Some officers who do not stand out as high performing officers statistically voice their frustration that their agency does not appreciate or give them credit for their efforts with the community. For evaluation and future promotion opportunities how would you track and give credit to an officer for their efforts to utilize community-oriented policing? How would you track and reward an officer for what is many times an intangible benefit to the agency?

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Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Policing lays the foundation of law enforcement in 1829. Since then, policing moved across various models, and reached to the current community-oriented policing model adopted in 1980s.

In US policing derives its authority from community . It is the community which decides what all things they need to be governed and hence involving community is very necessary for effective control of crime.

Officers who are focussed on community policing gives first priority to preventing the crimes which is very difficult to be recorded in statistical form . To track such an initiative there are various ways like taking feedback of 360 degree from community , department and other people related to officers. Besides this , one can also gauge the performance by reduction in complaints or FIR and reduction in crime which can be measured historically and compared to other similar division and subdivision.

Such officers are doing great work for organisation because prevention not only save the cost of investigation but also saves lot of time of police to focus more on complex cases. They must be rewarded at parity if not more than those selected on traditional statistical parameters

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