Albert Science International Organization

Abstract:

The family as the main organ of the community where all individuals originate has continued to be insignificant in shaping the design of community policing in Africa. In specific to Uganda, the introduction of neighbourhood watch in Muyenga locality and deployment of 6,500 crime preventers in 2016 as a strategy to advance community policing across the country remains to be ineffective to guarantee a society free from harm and fear as well as a safe and peaceful environment. This fact makes the active role of the family towards ensuring proactive crime control initiatives inevitable. With the aim of introducing a blend of the proactive crime control approach and with the reactive crime control approach are used by the Uganda Police to date. The focus of this research is that of investigating the role of the family in shaping the efficiency of community policing and crime governance in Africa. A mixed methodology will be used. This will involve both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study will be a field study with samples from five cultural regions in the East, West, South, North and Centre of Uganda. The sample size will involve 100 family units, 20 Crime preventers’ and 5 Family unit department officers. Emphasis be will made to select exactly 20 families from each of the regions. Interviews with 20 Crime preventers’ will be made with 4 from each region respective, 1 senior officers from Muyenga neighbourhood watch model and  lastly 5 Family unit department officers with one from each region under the Uganda Police in the focus regions will be interviewed. Questionnaires, and interview guides will be used for data collection. Analysis of data from the questionnaires will be done using SPSS and thematic analysis will be used to analyse the interview responses. Both findings will be used to statistically and thematically explain the role of the family in shaping the efficiency of community policing and crime governance in Africa.

Key Words: Community Policing, Family, Crime Governance.

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