Community Policing
...The diversity amongst its people is why our nation is viewed threw out the world as a tossed salad rather than the American melting pot. We are seen as a country of greater opportunity, a better lifestyle, and a place where families can come and start a new life amongst the people. Canada as a nation has adapted to other cultures and has learned from them. Not only do we embrace the cultural diversity in our communities, but we put forth all our efforts in order to help bring it into all areas of the Canadian environment where everyone can be treated equally and fair. Just like our country has adapted, policing in Canada has to do the same. No longer can our front line officers be seen as individuals who are stuck in the past and be seen as not being able to adapt and understand the different cultures and the differences that are amongst its people.
Sir Robert Peel said it best when he mandated his 10 principles "7. Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent upon every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence." (Peelian Principles, 2007)This essay will examine how community policing is beneficial not only to the community as a whole but also to all the officers that work within it them. It will prove how community policing has changed the barriers in communication, partnership and how it will continue developing in the future.
Discussion
Since Canada is a multicultural nation it has many different people that do not speak English or French as a first language. Stats Canada has reported the there are "more than 100 languages in completing the census question on mother tongue. The list includes...
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