A Community Survey of Perceptions of Police Performance (ePub)

Securing public confidence in the police is an important challenge for police administrators. The public's support is fundamental to the legitimacy of the police, and their effects to reduce crimes are very important. There is developing evidence that public support majorly relies upon the public perception that police treat people reasonably and proficiently. However the determinant of this public support is by no means fully understood. While numerous researchers have concentrated on the impact of citizen's personal contacts with police or on neighborhood, setting they have not efficiently investigated conceivable impacts on public opinion.

Since the mid 1980s the possibility of community-oriented policing has caught the consideration of police administrators everywhere throughout the world. However the information on how far reaching community-oriented policing has become in India is scanty, however all police personnel selected by the internal security department of the state are full-time sworn workforce whose primary obligation is community policing activities. Police executives today extensively concur that public support for the police is essential for fruitful policing. In addition there is developing confirmation that public support relies upon the public's perception that how police treat individuals fairly and professionally.