The Family Police Project Pilot Scheme, Erzincan, Turkey

Abstract

The study is an exegesis of extracts translated into English from the book: Aile Polisi (Family Police) 387 pages by Nuri Ateş published, 2011, in Turkish by Hayat Yayıncılık, Istanbul, Turkey.

It is an original exponent research on the Family Police Pilot Scheme Project introduced by the Erzincan Police in 2007 covering the conceptual framework of family policing; the drawbacks of traditional and classic policing in view of modern policing success criteria and equal partnership between the public and the police. The study draws a conclusion that is imperative in that although policing is seen as protecting life, public and private properties, securing the peace, but within a superseding framework of crime prevention rather than crime solving. The study relocates each resident to the centre of crime prevention and argues that only when the police is fully trusted, and it is the foremost duty of the police to work to earn the full public trust, that the community will partner the police in preventing crimes without which the success of policing will be minimal and on the fringes of society.

The scheme deploys arrays of citizen and government networks to help solve citizens’ problems, ranging from poverty to health issues and care by direct assistance and liaison ensuring that the Family Police promotion of the well-being of each and every resident of the city of Erzincan is felt by all and it is its frontal arsenal in preventing crimes.