Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
<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 Technologie...
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| author | Tahir Maqsood Sajjad A. Madani Bahadar Nawab Shakir Ullah Ingrid Nyborg |
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| description | <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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| spelling | doaj.art-b0554fa7ead5468a832168190a1543202022-12-22T03:11:02ZengLibrellophJournal of Human Security1835-38002019-05-01152214010.12924/johs2019.15020021155Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and OpportunitiesTahir Maqsood0Sajjad A. Madani1Bahadar Nawab2Shakir Ullah3Ingrid Nyborg4COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, PakistanCOMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, PakistanCOMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, PakistanCOMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, PakistanNorwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway<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; } -->http://www.librelloph.com/journalofhumansecurity/article/view/370community-oriented policinginformation and communication technologiessouth asia |
| spellingShingle | Tahir Maqsood Sajjad A. Madani Bahadar Nawab Shakir Ullah Ingrid Nyborg Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities Journal of Human Security community-oriented policing information and communication technologies south asia |
| title | Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_full | Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_short | Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities |
| title_sort | role of ict in community oriented policing in south asia challenges and opportunities |
| topic | community-oriented policing information and communication technologies south asia |
| url | http://www.librelloph.com/journalofhumansecurity/article/view/370 |
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