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The stalemate of community policing in South Africa
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Abstract With the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, new police service was needed to promote the transition to democracy. Community policing was introduced from the United Kingdom in the 1990s into South Africa as a channel to heal the wounds and injustices of the past. Over Twenty-five years down... mehr
With the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, new police service was needed to promote the transition to democracy. Community policing was introduced from the United Kingdom in the 1990s into South Africa as a channel to heal the wounds and injustices of the past. Over Twenty-five years down the road, community policing in South Africa has made little or no impact on the majority of South Africans who will openly admit that they do not attend their local community forums, because they simply do not trust the police because of its oppressive past. It is a widely held view by several South Africans that the Police Service simply cannot change overnight from being a very brutal force to become the protectors of citizen's human rights. This research is a qualitative study; whereby an extensive literature review was carried, exploring the issues and concepts related to community policing. The findings are that community policing has achieved its desired results. All citizens must go back to the drawing board again to bring community policing back on track for the benefit of all citizens to whom the police serve and protect. The author argues that the bitterness and divisions of the past must put be put to one side and that all citizens must co-create a country, where all South Africans are proudly part of and allowed to make their contributions.... weniger
Klassifikation
Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Barriers; Citizens; community policing forum; Police; Policing; South Africa
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 61-70
Zeitschriftentitel
EUREKA: Social and Humanities (2021) 2
ISSN
2504-5571
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)