Policy Briefs Examining the Operationalization of Community Oriented Policing in Gulu, Uganda This policy brief explores the implementation and impact of Community Oriented Policing in Gulu, Uganda. Stay tuned for more details and access to the full document. When Technology Fails Police and Communities: Lessons from Somaliland Based on fieldwork in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa, this brief shows how local preferences can undermine the availa- bility of globalized technologies, and offers insights into the everyday choices shaping low-level policing. It reflects local expectations and how they are, rather than should be, fulfilled. It emphasises that rather than being a solution to poor policing, ICT may distract from the need for communities to take the initiative in engaging with the police. Social Media: A Tool for COP in Post-Conflict Settings? Information and communication technologies have changed the way we communicate over the past decade. Social media plays an important role for the provision of security - for police agencies as much as for citi- zens. The same is true for post conflict societies. Work With The Community, Not Your Weapons The importance of involving local communities local communities in national strategies to prevent and counter violent extremism is often under-estimated. However, effective involvement of the local population requires a certain level of trust in the state and the police. Pride of Place: Building Kenyan Policing From The Bottom Up Most Kenyans distrust or fear police officers, but examples of meaningful community policing can be found. Based on instances of good practice collected from three police stations in Nairobi, Kenya in August 2016, this brief identifies three key observations that may apply to police-community engagement elsewhere in Eastern Africa. In short, police officers are more important than the policing models under which they operate. Possibilities of advancing police reform in guatemala through COP This policy brief uses research form two localities of Guatemala to argue that, in spite of difficulties, community-oriented policing (COP) strategies open oppotunities to move police reform forward in high-violence, low-trust, weak-instituritons, post-conflict context of Guatemala. Trust in community-oriented policing: Reflections on the results of research in Central America The policy brief emphasizes the enduring problem of trust in the context of region and the threat a current political return to authoritarianism represents to historic gain with COP and human security. Who is the community in community-oriented policing (COP) training? This brief presents some our findings on how police training and training materials address key concepts in COP susce as community, gender and partnerships, and the impolications this has on the way COP is taught, understood and practiced.
