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    This document discusses community policing in the Netherlands. It provides the origins and evolution of COP in the Netherlands since 1977. The key ambitions of COP are reducing distance between police and citizens, preventing crime, and encouraging citizen involvement. The roles of community officers are described as generalists who perform policing tasks except those requiring specialist expertise. The future of COP in the Netherlands is described as remaining flexible and adaptive while developing COP as a profession.

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    This document discusses community policing in the Netherlands. It provides the origins and evolution of COP in the Netherlands since 1977. The key ambitions of COP are reducing distance between police and citizens, preventing crime, and encouraging citizen involvement. The roles of community officers are described as generalists who perform policing tasks except those requiring specialist expertise. The future of COP in the Netherlands is described as remaining flexible and adaptive while developing COP as a profession.

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    This document discusses community policing in the Netherlands. It provides the origins and evolution of COP in the Netherlands since 1977. The key ambitions of COP are reducing distance between police and citizens, preventing crime, and encouraging citizen involvement. The roles of community officers are described as generalists who perform policing tasks except those requiring specialist expertise. The future of COP in the Netherlands is described as remaining flexible and adaptive while developing COP as a profession.

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    Community policing in the Netherlands:

    A continuously changing constant


    Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

    Arie van Sluis, Lex Cachet, Peter van Os, Ruth Prins, and
    Peter Marks

    Presentation IPES conference in Kerala,


    November 3-5, 2010

    Session 1 Historical (local) Development of COP


    Origin of Dutch COP:
    1977 ‘A Changing Police’
    Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

    New strategic vision in 2005:


    ’The Police in Evolution’

    COP has been a constant in Dutch policing and


    still is the leading principle
    Ambitions

    1. Reducing the distance between the police and


    Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

    citizens,
    2. Orientation towards a broad range of problems
    in the neighbourhood,
    3. Preventive approach and a proactive work style
    in addition to a reactive one,
    4. Cooperation with other agencies, and
    5. Encouragement of citizen involvement.
    Evolution of Dutch COP
    Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

    1: Fighting for existence (1970s and early 1980s)


    2: COP as the new orthodoxy (late 1980s and early
    1990s)
    3: Competing perspectives on policing (1990s and
    early 21st century)
    4: COP as area bound policing (after the 1993 Police
    Act)
    5: New realism, pragmatism in policing (2005 …)
    The community officer is:

    • Not a social worker,


    Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

    • The strong arm of government, a clearly visible and


    robust police officer in the streets,
    • He is a generalist who performs all policing tasks,
    except the ones that require specialist expertise.
    • He engages in criminal investigations, order
    maintenance and law enforcement.
    • He provides reliable information and support
    initiatives that are initiated and directed by the local
    government, based on a programmatic approach.
    Shifts in Dutch COP explained

    • The Dutch aversion against centralized state power


    • Overcoming the shortcomings of the traditional
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    policing model
    • Impact of managerialism
    • Changes in the political and social climate
    • Moving to and fro between hard and soft policing
    • The impact of police system reforms
    • Innovation dynamics
    • Unifying tendencies in Dutch policing
    Dutch COP in practice

    • COP as leading principle


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    • Uniformity and variety

    • Role conflicts

    • Time spent in the neighborhood

    • Balancing COP and crime investigations

    • Balancing COP and emergency response


    Dutch COP in practice (2)

    • Professional autonomy?
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    • Impact of traditional police culture

    • Cooperation with other agencies

    • Little attention for citizen participation


    Future prospect for Dutch COP

    • COP is there to stay, but flexible and adaptive


    Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

    • A strategy for diffusion and adoption of COP


    • Acceptance of the creativity and the problem solving
    capacity of rank-and file-officers
    • Intelligence led community officers
    • Developing COP as a profession
    • Focus on Problem Oriented Policing
    • Fine tuning police strategies
    • COP in a centralized Dutch police system

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