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Liverpool: Active Police Involvement with the Community

Our community, in the midst of social change, is industrialized, urban and crowded. Life is ordered and regulated by a multiplicity of laws and regulations. The traditional concept of authority once epitomized in the home, the school, and the work place is being questioned by the young, a young more worldly, more knowledgeable, more confident and more questioning than ever before. Consultation between work people and employers, students and lecturers, even school children and teachers, is being demanded by people who want a say, even the deciding say, in how things will be run. Society as a whole has never been more affluent, but is growing more violent and destructive. The police function in such a society cannot cling to the traditional interpretation of the objectives of prevention and detection of crime and the preservation of life and property. It must expand its objectives, it must be of the community and it must be in the community, understanding its fears, recognzing its injustices and sharing its hopes and aspirations. Crime prevention must go further than locked doors and secured premises; it must concern itself with the root causes of crime and criminality. It cannot deal with the products of social malaise, crime vandalism and hooliganism without trying to establish the causal factors and thereby attempt some new forms of preventive policing. Liverpool is a city with a history of social deprivation and hardship. Its social problems are amongst the most serious in the country. There is a tremendous awareness of these problems, and a variety of schemes and projects have been undertaken to improve the present and future quality of life for its people. The publicly pledged commitment by the chief constable in January, 1970, that the force was to become more involved in the community, was an enlightened and historic step for the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary, who must be considered among the forerunners of the wider approach to the police function in the social sphere. This article will attempt to highlight some of the problems of Liverpool, examine what has already been done, and provide suggestions for an extension and consolidation of the creditable efforts being undertaken.