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Results for community policing (ethiopia)
1 results foundAuthor: Denney, Lisa Title: Securing communities for development: Community policing in Ethiopia's Amhara National Regional State Summary: - There is growing interest in community policing internationally as a way of involving communities in their security provision. - Ethiopia's Amhara National Regional State offers a unique perspective on this, and its 'top-down' community policing model emerges from a particular political context shaped by its political structures and ideology, state-society relations and the existence of long-standing customary security and justice practices. - In practice, community policing in Ethiopia serves multiple purposes - from sharing the state's burden of policing with customary actors, to reducing crime, involving communities in security provision and contributing to national development. - Both positive and negative effects of this community policing model are apparent, with some improvements in perceptions of crime levels and police-community relations but concerns around the quality of justice on offer as well as contribution to an effective state surveillance system. Details: London: Overseas Development Institute, 2013. 36p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed October 9, 2014 at: http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8656.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Ethiopia URL: http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8656.pdf Shelf Number: 133619 Keywords: Community Policing (Ethiopia)Police-Citizen InteractionsPolice-Community Relations |