Promoting a Service Culture for Community Policing in Thailand
This paper examines the relevance of cultivating a service-oriented culture in the police organisations as a promoting force to the successful implementation of community policing. A survey was conducted with 656 police officers working in metropolitan police divisions of the Royal Thai Police, which has been selectively implementing community policing, to address the issue. The findings show that three out of the seven dimensions of service culture values correlate positively with the extent of community policing commitment. Specifically, the more the police exhibit the values of service quality, service orientation, and external communication, the more they demonstrate their commitment to the practice of community policing. Drawing on the survey findings, the paper makes several recommendations on the use of service culture to facilitate the implementation of community policing.