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ePROBLEM ORIENTED POLICING

REMEMBERING POP

- It is a framework

- underlying crime prevention strategy

- motivate to change the conditions that lead to crime

- Intent to develop new innovative responses driven by: analysis, preventative in nature, and not dependant on the CJS.

WHY DO WE USE POP?

- Scalable (applies to problems with varying levels of complexity

- Flexible (applies to a variety of substantive problem types)

- Applicable (useful in day to day police work)

- Doable (police officers can use it straight away)

WHAT IS A POP PROBLEM?

Problems can be defined in many way, (offence type, the people involved and location)

Number of the same incident is required to constitute a problem and the amount of these incidents should exceed the norm. (substantial and significant)

RECAPPING THE ESSENTIALS OF POP

- Problems concern citizens and police

- Solutions require dealing with the conditions that create problems

- systematically analyse the problems before trying to solve them

- current approaches must be understood and the limits of effectiveness must be openly acknowledged.

- consider any and all possible solutions

-pro-actively solve the problems

- evaluate the effectiveness of the new solutions

CHEERS TO DEFINING A PROBLEM

C-ommunity: members of the public must experience the harmful events

H-armful: people or institutions must suffer harm

E-xpectation: Members of the community must expect the police to address the issue

E-vents: Must be able to describe the events that make up the problem.

R-ecurring: the events must reoccur

S-imilarities: the recurring events must have something in common