PROBLEM-ORIENTED POLICING 3
Problem-Oriented Policing and Its Importance
Problem-oriented policing (POP) has been around for decades. POP can be
defined as a way to improve policing by analyzing and acting on the most serious
problems concerning the community. Research articles from various peer reviewed
journals were examined to obtain an understanding on the importance of POP. Most of
these articles are fairly relevant and published within the past few years with the
exception of one from 2003. This paper will address the following questions:
1. Who is using POP?
2. How should POP be used?
3. How effective can POP be?
Who is using POP?
In an interesting article, Boba and Crank (2008) state that few police departments
actually use POP. When POP is used, it is primarily by line officers only rather than a
chain of command. Boba and Crank (2008) also hold that even the most skilled officer
alone can’t properly use POP due to limited resources. Therefore these tactics need to be
incorporated among the rank structure with efficient communication. A group effort is
needed in order to achieve positive results, the task of POP should not be the
responsibility of just line officers.
On another note, POP has been adopted by many police agencies in the United
Kingdom and the United States (Tiley, 2010). Though its’ core values may have been
instilled in many police departments, not all of these agen...
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