Assessing the Delivery of Community Policing Services in Ada County, Idaho, 2002

This study was conducted to explore the ways that enable the Ada County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) to examine its behavior in five areas that embody its adoption of community policing elements: (1) periodic assessments of citizens' perceptions of crime and police services, (2) substation policing, (3) patrol based in problem-oriented identification and resolution, (4) performance evaluation in a community-oriented policing (COP)/problem-oriented policing (POP) environment, and (5) the building of community partnerships. The researchers strived to obtain both transitive and recursive effects. One of the goals of this project was to facilitate the ACSO's efforts toward self-reflection, and by doing so, become a learning organization. In order to do this, data were collected, via survey, from both citizens of Ada County and from deputies employed by the ACSO. The citizen survey was a random, stratified telephone survey, using CATI technology, administered to 761 Ada County residents who received patrol services from the ACSO. The survey was designed to correspond to a similar survey conducted in 1997 (DEVELOPING A PROBLEM-ORIENTED POLICING MODEL IN ADA COUNTY, IDAHO, 1997-1998 [ICPSR 2654]) in the same area regarding similar issues: citizens' fear of crime, citizens' satisfaction with police services, the extent of public knowledge about and interest in ideas of community policing, citizens' police service needs, sheriff's office service needs and their views of the community policing mandate. The deputy survey was a self-enumerated questionnaire administered to 54 deputies and sergeants of the ACSO during a pre-arranged, regular monthly training. This survey consisted of four sections: the deputies' perception of crime problems, rating of the deputy performance evaluation, ethical issues in policing, and departmental relations.

本研究旨在探讨阿达县 sheriff's office (ACSO) 在五个体现其社区警务要素采纳的领域内审视自身行为的方式：（1）对公民对犯罪和警务服务的感知进行定期评估，（2）派出所警务，（3）以问题为导向的识别和解决为基础的巡逻，（4）在以社区为导向的警务（COP）/以问题为导向的警务（POP）环境中进行绩效评估，以及（5）构建社区伙伴关系。研究人员致力于获取递归和传递效应。本项目的一个目标便是促进 ACSO 的自我反思努力，从而成为一个学习型组织。为此，通过调查问卷，从阿达县的公民以及受雇于 ACSO 的警官中收集了数据。公民调查是一项随机分层电话调查，采用 CATI 技术，对从 ACSO 接受巡逻服务的 761 名阿达县居民进行了调查。该调查旨在与 1997 年（1997-1998 年在爱达荷州阿达县发展以问题为导向的警务模式 [ICPSR 2654]）在同一地区进行的类似调查相对应，涉及类似问题：公民对犯罪的恐惧、公民对警务服务的满意度、公众对社区警务理念的认知程度和兴趣、公民对警务服务的需求、县 sheriff's office 的服务需求及其对社区警务使命的看法。警官调查是在预定的时间内，由 ACSO 的 54 名警官和警佐进行的一项自我申报问卷。该调查包括四个部分：警官对犯罪问题的认知、对警官绩效评估的评级、警务中的伦理问题以及部门关系。