An Assessment of Challenges and prospects of the Implementation of Community Policing: the Case Study of Bole Sub-city

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2015-11

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Addis Ababa University

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This research explores the implementation of community policing program in the case of Bole sub city. In Ethiopia community policing is implemented by both the federal and state governments in their respective police institutions in order to change the very nature of police practice. This research involved 65 officers and 2 key informant interviews .Questionnaire were distributed to the sample respondent’s officers of the sub city. Furthermore different related documents like report of Addis Ababa police commission and Bole sub city community policing division report were used to collect relevant data. Based on collected data, the researcher identified prospects of the approach as well as the challenges encountered through the implementation. Thus, the study revealed Bole sub city has benefited from the implementation in areas of crime prevention and better participation of the community. And the research also reveled major challenges in implementing community policing as lack of awareness and lack of training on the concept of community policing, absence of incentives schemes and employees low attitude towards community policing, the middle management reluctance to train and equip their subordinates, lack of expertise on the side of experts who follow up the implementation. Based on these results, recommendations are proposed: training both the employees and the middle management, increasing media role in creating awareness of the public about community policing and increasing opportunity in working together with the community in local development schemes

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Bole sub-city

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