Community Policing - A European Perspective

Part 1: CP context and processes.- Introduction.- Community policing in support of social cohesion.- Fostering accountability in community policing.- Community policing: The relevance of social contexts.- CP core components.- Part 2: European CP practices and case studies.- Community policing and radicalization: Evaluation and European examples.- Police liaison approaches to managing political protest: a critical analysis of a prominent UK example.- Community policing and public perception: Belgian expectations and images of the police.- Joining forces for our security in Austrian community policing.- Security as the basis behind community policing: Croatia's community policing approach.- Community policing case studies: proposing a social media approach.- Part 3: CP in an interconnected world.- New crime and landscapes and new technologies for community policing.- Social media: facilitator and stimulator of community policing.- Mobile communications for community policing.- Importance of cyber security.- Applying computational intelligence to community policing and forensic investigations.- Evaluation framework for CP tools.- Concluding remarks.

Petra Saskia Bayerl is Associate Dean of Diversity and Associate Professor of Technology and Organizational Behaviour at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands. She further acts as Co-Director of CESAM (Centre of Excellence in Public Safety Management, Erasmus University, NL) and Visiting Research Fellow at CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organized Crime Research, Sheffield Hallam University, UK). She is a regular speaker at police and security conferences and workshops and member of advisory boards of EU projects as well as program Committee Member for international conferences. Her research lays at the intersection of human-computer interaction, organizational communication and organizational change with a special focus on the impact of technological innovations and public safety. Her research has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, New Media and Society and Journal of Organizational Behavior as well as international conferences in psychology, management, computational linguistics and computer sciences and books. Her most recent books as co-editor are "Application of Big Data for National Security" (Elsevier) and "Open Source Intelligence Investigation: From Strategy to Implementation" (Springer).



Ruza Karlovic, PhD, Chief Police Inspector, is a lecturer at the Police College, Police Academy Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Zagreb Police College in 2002. The following year she started working as a research assistant at Police College, Department of Criminology and Juvenile Delinquency. In 2007, she graduated with a licentiate from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb where she eventually defended her PhD thesis in 2012. Her research interests focus on police status and duties in society, crime prevention and sociology of crime. She has participated in the implementation of project