Authors : Dr. John Motsamai Modise

Volume/Issue : Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 4 - April

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10057917

Abstract : The purpose of the article was to distinguish between policing frameworks, policing systems, policing strategies, and policing models. It also analyzed the current policing and resource strategies in use so that readers could make an informed choice about what should guide an ideal policing model. The goal was to determine the needs and inadequacies in the current policing system and to offer suggestions for what should guide the SAPS's ideal policing model. Exploration, evaluation, and comprehension of the data gathered during the study process would help to achieve this. Literature, study participants in their respective policing, security systems, and institutions, as well as the state of the policing system at the time, would all be sources. The prevalent "fire brigade" or "reactive" techniques of policing are criticized and replaced with community policing, problem-oriented policing, and intelligence-led policing. In the latter, the police respond individually to problems as they arise and resolve them there and then. They leave after that and wait for the next critical incident. Response policing lacks any sense of strategy. There aren't any long-term goals. Beyond surviving in the present, there is no goal. Police reform that will give it more direction is a goal shared by community policing, problem-oriented policing, and intelligence-led police. They offer substitute models. The field of information analysis is becoming more and more important for assisting in the provision of policing services. An emphasis on minimizing harm and managing risk, combined with meeting demand, are important motivations. The demand for information to be accessible, processed, where necessary shared, and understood is influenced by a greater emphasis on access to information about policing issues and police force performance as part of a more community-focused approach, statutory changes that further support partnership working, and the development of shared outcomes and targets, such as Local Area Agreements. Along with structural and policy changes that have an impact on how police forces are organized, evaluated, and the organizations they must work with, a more complex criminal environment and an evolving technological infrastructure have an impact on the data that can be gathered, stored, and cross-referenced. Crime analysis has found its niche in this confluence of data availability, inter-agency cooperation, risk minimization, and the very real need to draw connections in order to comprehend both the environment of crime and policing responses. However, it is unavoidable that the process of analysis and the analyst who does the assignment would face tremendous expectations and pressure as a result of being driven by such a wide range of demands. Police employ these analytical techniques to create plans for reducing and preventing crime. The procedure has a rating promising and contributed to a large drop in crime and disturbance.

Keywords : Community Policing, Intelligence Led Policing, Crime Control.