Assessing The Role of Community Policing in Combating Crime the Case of Selected Some Urban Kebele in Dire Dawa Administration

Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organize strategies that support the systematic use of partnership and problems solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime social disorder, fear of crime The major objective of the study is to examine the role of community policing in combating crime the case of Selected some urban kebele in Dire Dawa Administration. The study adopted a descriptive research design and targeted 274 community policing committees, 51 community policing officers and 2 head quarter community policing coordinators. The community policing committees and community policing officers selected from Selected some urban kebeles within Dire Dawa administration. The study used primary and secondary data then the primary data gathered through questionnaire, interview and FGD discussions. In addition to this, Qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed in analyzing the data. Beside to this, the CP committees selected by using sample size determination formula and individual respondents of CP committees selected through systematic random sampling technique. Findings of the study revealed that, community policing has a significant role on crime prevention and facilitate a way in creation of community-police partnership. Findings also indicated that, there are community policing structures within the administration and the communities uses these structures in their localities to solve problems. This helps to reduce crime within the administration in a substantial way.