Neighbours, Everybody Needs Good Neighbourhood Policing
Rebuilding trust, community intelligence and policing by consent in a post-conflict society I want to begin by making one thing absolutely clear: this is not an attack on the police. Most police officers join the service because they want to make a positive difference. They work under immense pressure, face scrutiny from every direction and regularly encounter situations that most of us will thankfully never experience. It is entirely possible to respect the police while also asking difficult questions about how policing is delivered and where priorities lie. As someone who worked as a civilian member of staff in two police forces in England, I saw first-hand the importance of neighbourhood policing and community intelligence. Looking at our own post-conflict society, I increasingly wonder whether we have drifted away from some of those fundamentals. For most people, policing is not judged by major operations, intelligence-led investigations or headlines about organised cri...
