QUALITY OF LIFE AND COMMUNITY POLICING: BETWEEN THEORY AND THE REALISTIC NEEDS OF THE CITIZENS
BETWEEN THEORY AND THE REALISTIC NEEDS OF THE CITIZENS
Keywords:
quality of life, needs of the citizens, crime, community policingAbstract
The quality of life is an immediate sustainability manifestation, which refers to the capability of the place or the local community to meet the current needs of the citizens without jeopardizing the possibility for the future generation to meet their needs to the full extent. The quality of life is the identification of the key domains of human well-being in the community, ie., the identification of the existing needs of its citizens. The needs of the citizens of one local community synthetize everything that the citizens recognize as a difference between the current and desirable situation. The need can be formulated also as a wish to improve the current situation or to correct the defect.
Systems (services, institutions, agencies) for providing services to the citizens in the functional communities base their activities on defined priorities of the local community, they reduce the potential risks for the citizens, put their focus on outcomes (changes among citizens) rather than the processes themselves, maintain existing and establish new social networks of help and support to individuals, while respecting their individual rights, include citizens (service users) in decision-making agencies, and others. Whenever various forms of community action and action are realized, into account must be taken the specificities of the target groups and the characteristics of the community whose needs or deficits must be met. Based on these principles a modern police organization is basing its activities within community policing, dealing primarily with the security needs of citizens.
The analytical approach in this paper deals with the implementation of a problem-solving strategy with the goal to reduce the fear of crime and the rate of crime, that is, with the measures and activities by which the police influences on the quality of life of citizens in the local community.
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