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01 January 1991

PROBLEMS IN ADMINISTERING COMMUNITY POLICING:
SOME LESSONS FROM IMPLEMENTATIONAL ANALYSIS
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M Gill , M Thrasher
Policy and Politics, Vol 13, No 1, January 1985 pp37-52

Research has suggested that implementation may only improve if
sufficient attention is paid to the motives of implementors
as they forsake the confines of their own organisation and
establish their own `implementation structures'. The lessons
of both top-down and bottom-up analyses are then used
to illustrate some of the complications which have arisen
in trying to implement community policing. Two important
aspects of community policing policy are highlighted. First,
within the police organisational structure itself there are
problems encountered as police personnel try to adapt to the
differing demands of this style of policing. Second, because
of its approach community policing places considerable
emphasis on the need for interagency cooperation. (Journal
abstract).

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