Community Policing (Switzerland)
In Community Policing (CP), it is essentially about the cooperation between the police and the public to identify and resolve common problems. This demanding approach to police work requires an unclouded relationship of trust between the population and their police. This trust is based on a high preventive presence of the police in the localities, combined with a strong knowledge of the place and the milieu.
history
CP comes from the USA and is a societal approach to crime and traffic accident prevention at the community level. Direct contact between the population and the police suffered from the increasing motorization of the police. Various CP models were created that were also adopted abroad. German-speaking Switzerland has therefore created its own CP procedures, while the French-speaking Swiss corps also maintain suitable doctrines that most closely resemble American " neighborhood watching ". The pioneering canton for the introduction of the first CP approaches in the second half of the 1990s was Basel-Stadt. City police forces in particular cultivate the CP philosophy, as it has a special meaning for the management of public space.
The 9 Ps
The CP approach commonly used in Switzerland and originating from the USA is based on the 9 Ps: philosophy, personal, police work, patrols, permanent, police organization, proactive, partnership and problem solving.
Preventive part of the CP
Prevention is operated schematically according to the "SARA procedure": record, analyze, react and evaluate the situation.
Repressive part of the CP
Repression is based on the " broken windows theory ". This essentially assumes that the "roads must be reclaimed". Another theory is " zero tolerance ".
swell
- Swiss Police Institute: Community Policing - basic document for the federal professional examination for police officers.