As we prepare to police the parades over the next few months, we have again asked for the full support of the elected representatives and influential people across our communities.
Solving difficult issues in consultation and with the help, co-operation and assistance of the community is the very essence of Policing with the Community.
Whilst Neighbourhood Policing Teams have a critical role to play, policing with the community is in fact a core function of every police officer regardless of their individual role.
Neighbourhood Policing is not about how we police but where we police with a specific purpose of delivering the right people, at the right places and in the right numbers, in order to create safer, confident and peaceful neighbourhoods.
It is about the police listening to, understanding the issues that matter most, and working together with the community and other statutory and voluntary bodies to tackle them. Policing is not for the police alone, and often we are only part of the solution longer term.
We have over the past few months been developing and consulting with a number of critical friends, on a set of Policing with the Community Commitments. These will be a series of commitments aimed at clearly outlining to the public the minimum standard of police response which can be expected. Further consultation will be required, but once these are finalised they will be published.
In the meantime we will continue to strive to deliver personal, professional and protective Policing with the Community by engaging with and listening to local communities and by providing them with access to named local police, influence over policing priorities and delivering partnership interventions.
Despite all the challenges and pressures we routinely face, this is an area of policing which is not negotiable.
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