Abstract
The Community Policing model prefers a police organisation in which a policy is developed related to the needs of the community and focusses, amongst other things, on trust-building between the citizen and the community. In order to reach this goal, the police needs to have a clear insight into what people think and expect from the police. 120 citizens of different age groups living in a rural or urban area in Belgium were interviewed. A kaleidoscopic view of expectations and meanings of the police was found and is presented in this chapter.
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The letter which selected people received was made up in Dutch, but contained also a small French and English explanation.
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A general remark can be made that it is often not very clear if the respondents are talking in terms of expectations, which they express with regard to themselves or with regard to others.
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©federal police.
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During the preparation of the interviews phase, we observed 8Â months in two local police corps.
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Verwee, I. (2017). Community Policing and Public Perception: Belgian Expectations and Images of the Police. In: Bayerl, P., Karlović, R., Akhgar, B., Markarian, G. (eds) Community Policing - A European Perspective. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53396-4_8
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