Community policing in the Philippines: Communication, trust, and service provision
In Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Abstract
In this chapter, we test the effects of community policing in Sorsogon Province in the Philippines. The intervention generated a four-fold increase in police-citizen interactions in treated villages, but consistent with the meta-analysis of all six sites in this volume, we found no effects on crime or on citizens’ attitudes about public safety. To disaggregate the effects of different components, we sequenced the implementation of community engagement (CEP) and problem-oriented policing (POP) but found no effects on harmonized outcomes for CEP alone or for CEP combined with POP. Finally, we present suggestive evidence of positive impacts on specific types of crimes targeted by barangays’ problem-oriented policing teams, indicating that while community policing cannot address all community problems at once, it may improve specifically targeted issues.
Cite
@incollection{haim2024community,
title={Community policing in the Philippines: Communication, trust, and service provision},
author={Haim, Dotan and Nanes, Matthew and Ravanilla, Nico},
booktitle={Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust},
editor={Blair, Graeme and Christia, Fotini and Weinstein, Jeremy M},
publisher={Cambridge University Press},
year={2024},
pages={400--438}
}