About the Service Community Policing

What Is Community Policing? | Community Service Centres | Neighbourhood Foot Patrol | Community Service Centre Locations

What is Community Policing?

"To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police. The police being the only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interest of Community welfare and existence."

Sir Robert Peel
Father of Modern Policing

Community policing brings police and citizens together in a cooperative effort to prevent and solve crime and reduce social disorder in local neighbourhoods. This new and innovative approach to policing focuses on:

Police and citizens working together
The use of innovative problem solving techniques
Constant contact and consultation between the police and the community
Ownership and responsibility (accountability instead of responsibility?) to neighbourhood areas
Opportunities for the community to be active in the police process

These goals of community policing are achieved as the Winnipeg Police Service and the public open lines of communication and embrace this philosophy.