Police managers’ characteristics of importance for successful achieving of the community policing concept

Abstract

For the effective implementation of the concept and practice of community policing, it is very important for it to have an immanent management. This implies the need not only to adapt the known forms and styles of management that are applied to the police, but also to select the appropriate managers. It is necessary for these systems and methods to be carefully thought-out in the context of the community policing, and to even find and build-new ones, as well as that the criteria of selection and deployment of managers are adapted to the functions and organization of the community policing. This paper attempts to point out to the said needs and to present ideas aimed at finding adequate police management for effective implementation of community policing, i.e. the style and characteristics of the persons in charge of management.