The joint committee must agree on the goals, boundaries, and dimensions of community policing and identify a corresponding range of options. Even when guidelines are established externally, specific decisions must fit the department and be fully understood for effective implementation. Stakeholders and their interests . Preparation Stage Top level commitment . Commitments at the highest level must be elicited from each of the key stakeholders.
Verbal commitments are an important, but limited first step.
To build or rebuild trust, labor and management leaders must show their commitment through changed behavior and efforts to remove barriers to community policing. Identify the demonstrations of commitment required by each group to establish confidence in the process. Integration with other initiatives. Determine whether community policing will be affected by other departmental changes, or conversely, whether it will interfere with other programs. Reconciling the needs of all programs will mean less competition for scarce resources.