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Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Community Policing Among Stakeholders in Rivers State

Community policing is increasingly gaining traction as a veritable approach to tackling internal security and reducing crime in local settings in Nigeria. This modest paper assesses perceptions and attitudes towards community policing among key stakeholders and community members in selected local government areas in Rivers State. The paper is anchored on the Community Engagement Theory as its analytical framework. The cross-sectional research design was adopted as a strategy for generating data. Population of the study consisted of 1,793,500 persons drawn from three purposively selected local …