ABSTRACTPolice departments across Uganda are faced with significant challenges to reducecrime, improve quality of life, and, use meagre resources. Many have struggled tofind the right balance between keeping communities safe, while at the same timehaving transparent and effective policing methods and approach. This thesisexamines effectiveness or/ and ineffectiveness of community policing. This isderived from people’s perceptions of the policing strategies used within theircommunities.The research focuses on the nature of community policing and its, perceptionamong the Ugandans and how these policing strategies are important to policelegitimacy (acceptability) and how it helps them in gaining the trust of the localpopulation. The thesis discusses reasons to why community policing has not beenaccepted by the Uganda population. Continually therefore, it is examined whethercommunity policing has brought about reduction in crime rate.The thesis revealed that there is much laxity in bridging the gap between thecommunity members and the police. Most people feel police is not involving theentire community into their activities, people think police is to protect certaingroups of people in society especially the rich. Most people (47%) negativelyperceive community policing, though 56% reported that it is an importantprogram. Reduction in crime due to community policing was observed. Thethesis concludes by advocating for strategies that are important for a successfulcommunity policing program implementation.Finally, the thesis recommended involvement of the media and need for police toadapt to use of new technology to avoid confrontation by masses that may besuspicious, for example, body-worn cameras (BWCs).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-25596 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Sempagala, Alex |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), Malmö universitet/Hälsa och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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