Attitude Of Communities Towards Community Oriented Policing (Cop) Development And Implementation In Pulau Pinang
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2016-09
Authors
Hassan, Mohammad Mujaheed
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Community-Oriented Policing (COP) is a bridge that enables community and law
enforcement agencies to communicate, collaborate and work together to build safer, more caring
community. Malaysian government tries to allocate more resources towards fighting crime and
establishing more agencies to review police rules and code of conduct and investigate public
complaints. The need to achieve greater efficacy in the delivery of police service has led them to
seek support and legitimacy within and from the public. In the 2nd quarter of year 2007, through
PDRM five years’ strategic plan (2007-2011) the government has introduced COP into the
Malaysian policing strategies. COP comes with its own unique set of challenges. It reduces crime
by engaging the community itself as a partner in the fight against crime rather than relying on
aggressive law enforcement as the only solution to community problems. COP is a belief that by
working together, the police and the community can accomplish anything that cannot be
accomplished alone. It involves a rethinking of the role of police and a restructuring of the
policing. The purposes of this research study are; (i) to measure the effectiveness level of COP
implementation; (ii) to investigate community response on COP implementation; and (iii) to
examine the impact of community-oriented policing implementation on community role. In order
to achieve the objectives, a semi structured survey was conducted on the selected six (6) housing
schemes in Pulau Pinang. The data collected were then analysed by using SPSS software. An
exclusive qualitative interview was conducted with PDRM, IPD, Daerah Timur Laut in order to
gain more information and understanding of COP enforcement in Pulau Pinang. In addition,
Bandar Sri Pinang was selected as a location of pilot case study in order to understand practically
COP implementation. The success of COP implementation is depending on community
understanding and involvement, at the same time it also need consistency and commitment in the
management of local authority towards COP as well as personal communication and interaction
between the two parties. Lack of communication and interaction skill has led to certain problems
related to communities’ awareness, responsibility and understanding of the actual COP
implementation. Although the community is aware of police and the COP committee presence in
their area yet they are not aware of the actual concept behind it. The research study finds that
supervision and commitment by local authority is inconsistent. Local authority should also
understand the past and review the objectives, implementation purposes, the essential elements of
the implementation and constraints that should be dealt with before, during and after the
implementation of the COP.
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To examine the impact of community-oriented policing , implementation on community role.