Citizen Police Academy: Community Policing Through Education
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Date
2018
Authors
DeLeon, David
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Publisher
Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT)
Abstract
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Many agencies of all sizes have developed and implemented a citizen police academy (CPA) to close the gap between the community and police. Despite all the research that suggest such implementations of a CPA has been successful with agencies, little research supports or disproves the cost, the time, and the risk of providing a CPA within a university police department. The goal of a CPA is to provide the community they serve with basic knowledge and exposure to police operations and procedures. The CPA is a powerful teaching tool increasing transparency between the police and community. Every university police agency should set up a CPA; there are many advantages for both the community they serve and the police department.
Keywords
Police-community relations, Volunteer workers in law enforcement