| Summary: | <pre style="text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Community-oriented policing (COP) as a model has found widespread acceptance throughout the world both in developed and developing countries. Similarly, Information and Communication Technologies (</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">ICTs</span><span style="color: #000000;">) have been embraced by many developed countries to augment COP initiatives. However, very little is known about the application of </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">ICTs</span><span style="color: #000000;"> in COP in developing countries, particularly South Asia. In this article, we review the current </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">ICT</span><span style="color: #000000;">-based COP initiatives by focusing on some of the selected projects from developed countries and South Asia. The paper has used COP in the Khyber </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">Pakhtunkhwa</span><span style="color: #000000;"> (</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">KP</span><span style="color: #000000;">) province of Pakistan as a case. While meaningful insights can be derived through learning from the experiences of developed countries, we highlight some major issues and challenges that are likely to be faced while implementing </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">ICT</span><span style="color: #000000;"> based COP in South Asia. Moreover, we provide an overview of some exciting opportunities that arise as a result of embracing </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;">ICTs</span><span style="color: #000000;"> to enhance COP efforts for building trusting community-police relations and hence improving human security in the region.</span></pre><!-- p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } -->
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