An Exploratory Study on the Use of the Community Police Forum in Muchipisi Village to Develop Partnership Policing

• Authors: Roelofse, Cornelis

Abstracts

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Muchipisi Village is situated in the deep rural area of the South African Low Veld near Giyani. The study of partnership policing in this rural area has been performed by interviewing three core stakeholders, namely a focus group from the community, members of the Community Policing Forum and police officers deployed in the area. The methodological approach of using a narrative cross-correlation was used to test the reliability of respondents’ reactions to interview questions. The research, for a Magister Artium degree in Criminal Justice was conducted to see if there indeed exists a partnership between the police and the community and therefore issues such as regular meetings, feedback, information supplied to the community on crime and community members giving information about perpetrators and planned crime to the police were taken as indicators of an existing partnership. The findings are presented in tabular form, representing the responses of all three groups and then these are cross-correlated and deductions made to answer the research objectives.

Keywords

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community policing; crime prevention; community police forum

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Policji w Szczytnie
• Journal: Internal Security
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3(2)
• Pages: 83-104

Contributors

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Roelofse, Cornelis