This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address
bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts.
"Community-oriented policing" is an approach that encourages police to
develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community
organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance
trust and legitimacy of police by the community (and vice versa), and
focus on engaging the community crime prevention and detection efforts
for sustainable, long-term crime reduction.
The contributions to this volume emphasize how technological innovations
can advance community-oriented policing goals, such as:
-Strengthening community policing principles through effective and
efficient tools, procedures and approaches
- Accelerating communication between citizens and police forces
- Early identification, timely intervention, as well as better crime
reporting, identification of risks, unreported and undiscovered crime
through the community
Contributions to this volume were developed out of the Next Generation
Community Policing (NGCP) International Conference was co-organized by
nine contributing research and development projects, funded by the
Horizon 2020 SECURITY Program of the European Commission. It will be of
interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as
related fields such as sociology, public health, security, IT and public
policy. This book is open access under a CC BY license.
