We think these resources will be helpful tools for Community
Policing and Crime Prevention projects. They make suggestions
about how and why community policing and crime prevention
work, but please, adapt them to the needs of your community.
How to Build/Fix/Maintain
Productive Partnerships
This toolkit
from the COPS Collaboration describes how police forces can build and maintain good collaboration
with their communities. By finding stakeholders, establishing
partnerships, and maintaining good communication with everyone,
policing can become richer and more responsive. Though this
manual was written for a law-enforcement audience, it will
be useful for anyone wanting to establish a comprehensive
crime prevention plan.
Safer Canada - Community-Based Crime Prevention Manual
This manual
describes the “Safer Communities Approach” to
crime prevention, which stresses the importance of collaboration
and dialogue with all sectors of the community. The guide
explains how to start a crime prevention program step-by-step,
from problem analysis to action and evaluation. It will be
useful to both community organizations and police forces.
Understanding Community Policing
This framework
from the Community Policing Consortium is less hands-on than the previous examples, but it’s
still useful because it articulates the need for community
policing solutions, provides a brief history of community
policing, lists some of the core philosophies, and the organizational
complexities of running a community policing program. This
would be a useful document early on in the process, when a
birds’ eye view of the project is needed.
Have we missed something? Know a great resource
we should include here? Email us at tamarack@tamarackcommunity.ca
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