지역사회 경찰활동의 활성화방안에 관한 연구 : 지역경찰제를 중심으로

Abstract

Currently, our society have witnessed more various crimes occurring quantitatively and qualitatively enough to ask ‘explosive demand of public peace’, but the police system has limitations to suppression of crimes and protection of life and property of community people because of lack of its personal and physical resources. For overcoming and complementing such limitation of policing activities, cooperation between community people and the police, that is, partnership, is emphasized as a new philosophy of public peace which is called community policing. Korea has implemented community policing like foreign countries, but it is not organized and efficient. Therefore, to improve our quality of life and meet social demands to the police, we need organized community police system. In this terms, this study looks at the current status and problems of community policing to activate police system and presents some suggestions for its activation. This study presents some suggestions on activation of community policing system for community people as a paradigm of the 21st century policing, which focuses on renovation of police images and reinforced services for the people. To sum up the suggestions, : first, it suggests activation of community policing in long-term and short-term perspectives for settlement of community policing. Second, it suggests that autonomous rights of community policing and self-governing policing should be expanded to realize regionalization of police organization management. Third, voluntary participation of community people in community policing should be induced. Fourth, it suggests community policing should be actively promoted. Fifth, images of the police should be renovated. If such activation is achieved, reliability of the police can be secured and crimes can be prevented. The limitation of existing police system can be overcome and the ability to deal with changes in policing environment can be improved. Therefore, this study presents some suggestions on activation of various policing programs of the community police system to improve service quality of the police through their restoration and improvement of reliability.