Police and Security, Vol. 34 No. 1, 2025.
Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.59245/ps.34.1.5
Application of the Model of Intelligence-Led Police Activity and Police Work in the Community
Kristian Družeta
; Pravni fakultetu u Rijeci, Republika Hrvatska
Damjan Potparič
; Generalno tajništv INTERPOL-a u Lyonu, Slovenija
Abstract
The challenges of modern society and the response of the police to the demands that citizens put before them every day require new work models that shall effectively contribute to the feeling and actual state of security of the citizens. This paper provides an overview of intelligence-led police activity and community policing as models that can respond to contemporary demands for the required level of police efficiency. Although such models of work have been present for several decades throughout modern democratic countries, in our part of the world, more concrete changes and implementation began in the early 2000s. The main characteristic of both models is a proactive approach that emphasises prevention as opposed to a reactive and repressive model which deals with consequences, with the aim of balancing the reactive-interventional model that significantly characterises police activity and the proactive-preventive approach of preventing and detecting criminal deeds and other forms of deviant behaviour. After the introduction, the paper explains in more detail the model of intelligence-led police activity, which stems from criminal intelligence activity, where the management of data and information comes to the fore. We follow this up with a description of the "Community Policing" model, where contact police officers and regular patrols are among the essential factors in the success of the prevention program and proactive approach, which form the central backbone of both activity models. In order for all of this to be effective and applicable, a new paradigm in management is needed, and this is what we write about in the following chapter, which compares both models. Finally, we point out the important role of local self-government units, each determined by their local characteristics, and a possible challenge for the police to respond to the demands of those characteristics in relation to their centralised system.
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Publication date:
31.3.2025.
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