| dc.description.abstract | Community Oriented Policing is not necessarily new to Sri Lanka Police Service and
its popularity has grown significantly over the recent past. This concept of
community-oriented policing has been found and started in England's metropolitan
Police era, and the imperialist police system in Sri Lanka has facilitated the use of
this concept in the performance of police duties to a certain extent even though it is
not so advanced and technical. This concept often has broad and varied objectives,
depending on public and police interrelationship and on their mutual
understanding. Best evidence for this matter can be seen in the Police Orders and
Ordinances that were used in the past to primarily give orders and instructions to
the police such as Police Orders A-18, A-19, A-20, C-21, E-08 and Police Ordinance
section 56. These objectives can be used to crime prevention productively. But due
to lack of an implementing process by the Police service, it appears that is has not
evolved as expected. Sri Lanka Police attempts have been made to implement this
old concept in a new way. This has been introduced again as a new concept. These
new programmes that build the relationship between the Police and communities,
working together to resolve root courses for preventing and reducing crimes, the
fear of crime, insecurity and safety issues from the society. This philosophy
promotes organisation strategies tailored to meet the changing needs of local
communities. Sri Lanka’s traditional Policing aims to stop crime primarily through
punishment, and at present this community policing models are used as a set of
crime prevention techniques. This concept is closer to the public and has set its
sights on that. With this philosophy and achieving the vision of the Sri Lanka Police
that is closer to the community it serves can become closer to reality. | en_US |
