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Community Policing: The Case of Informal Policing in Nigeria

While community policing (CP) generally may have gained worldwide acceptance in the past two decades as a philosophy, its definition has not generally received an intersubjective acceptability. There is a problem with defining the concept of CP. Its definition is still in limbo, pejorative, and rooted in various dictums and aphorisms. Despite the popularity of community policing, a universally acceptable definition has evaded law enforcement practitioners in the United States in particular, and the global society in general (Cheurprakobkit, 2002). Trojanowicz and Buequeroux (1990, p. 5) have p…