The purpose of Community Oriented Policing, is to make us as efficient as we possibly can be within a legal and ethical framework. Efficiency can be defined as protecting the law abiding and innocent from the violent or criminally inclined. This is done first by making every effort to prevent crime. In a effort to better understand what Community Oriented Policing is, We'd like to describe what it is not. It is not a program.
Programs have a beginning, a middle, and a end.
Community Oriented Policing must be dominant philosophy of the organization. It is not public relations scheme or designed to provide political advantage for certain persons. It does allow the citizen's of this county to share the responsibility for resolving problems in their community. Community Oriented Policing will succeed or fail based on the efforts of all of us, especially those of us who will be on the front lines. Community Oriented Policing is built on the theory that the Peace Officers are more efficient when they know what they are looking for, as opposed to driving aimlessly about hoping to stumble upon a criminal act or waiting to be called after the fact.