Concept of Community Policing in Official Discourse of Police Commanders in Iran

• In Event: Community Policing II: International Applications

Abstract

Community policing is a new model to improve relationship of police and people as a strategy in crime control. It is not a common definition of the concept, instead some criteria has been identified for recognizing the model. Community policing is a philosophy that encourages organizational guidelines that study reasons of crime and social disorder through problem solving techniques and participation of community and police. Recently, reinforcement relationship of police with community has been considered as concern to policy makers of Iran’s police system. Master authorities of police asserted their perception from community policing duration of speeches. In police discourse, programs such as social security plan and neighborhood policing has been said that performs in following of people concerns. Use of terms like “performance a program in each neighbor by neighbor, not having compliment for no body by police, not criticize to police”, shows that content of community policing and administrative mechanisms has not been entered in cultural police, despite some signs from movement of police to community based programs. The study seeks to research aspects of formal discourse of police managers about community policing with approach of governed principles on community policing.Key Words: Police, Iran, official discourse, community

Author

• Zahra Abedinezhad Mehrabadi, Semnan University