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