Best Practices for Community Policing and Crime Prevention in Nigeria

Community engagement lies at the core of policing. Therefore, through collaborative efforts, community and police members address crime and disorder using approaches determined to be best practices for their communities. Today, community policing involves a new philosophy of police operations and management; hosting an accountability system involving the entire organisation. Nevertheless, to be effective in preventing crime, Nigerian police must place renewed emphasis on community engagement and practices. Based on this premise, this paper examines the best practices for community policing and crime prevention in Nigeria. The paper began with an introduction which x-rayed community policing as evolving to meet the new expectations that emerge in the 21st Century. The paper further looked into the philosophical principles of community policing, crime prevention, community policing best practices for Nigeria, organisational changes for implementing community policing best practices for Nigeria, and the expected benefits of community policing to Nigerians. The paper concluded that while the ways of implementing community policing may differ in practice in accordance with certain conditions in the communities, it is imperative to know that the basic philosophical principles of community policing should always be adhered to, if the best practices for community policing is to be achieved in Nigeria.

Study on the Dynamic Protection of Cultural Relics: A Case Study of the Bell Tower of Jinling High School

It is an inevitable trend for cultural relics protection to change from static protection to dynamic protection. Based on the protection status of the Bell Tower of Jinling High School, this paper analyzes why the transformation from static to dynamic protection is necessary. Through literature review, questionnaire survey, think-tank consulting and other research methods, using 3D modeling, GIS, Space Syntax and other technical means, this paper puts forward ideas in dynamic protection including introduction of ICOMOS Heritage Alert Template, establishment of Public Open Day, optimization of surrounding landscape of cultural relics, and so on.