Combating extremism through community policing – Daily Notable

Combating extremism through community policing – Daily Notable

By Muhammad Rizwan Bhatti

Extremism and terrorism has wreaked havoc upon socio-political, economic prosperity and national cohesion. It has claimed hundred and thousands lives of civilians, personnel of police and armed forces. Religious and political extremism creates uncertainty, skepticism, hatred and jingoism in society.

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The upsurge of religious extremism and the concomitant predominance of violence and militancy have caused considerable mayhem and distress all over the world. Furthermore, the adoption of extreme views and resort to violent means to express the resentment and misgiving is described as violent extremism and radicalization.

Community Policing & Neighborhood Watch

Community policing and neighborhood policing are two different but interlinked concepts, which identify the need for the police to work with the communities that they policed. Public support is essential to effectively combat extremism and terrorism.

Community participation includes consultative groups, crime prevention and detection, exhibition and support activities, victim support schemes, juvenile’s schemes, interaction with public representatives, business community in order to help the distressed people of society through the effective and cost-effective involvement of notable community members.

Community Policing & Homeland Security Issues

Neighborhood policing is essentially geographically based and its functionality restricted to territorial and political boundaries, however, the term acknowledges that several communities may exist within a geographical area.

Because Only Together We Can

Community policing is the delivery style that predominantly relies on the police understanding and responding to each different community within a geographical neighborhood. Moreover, Enhanced and fostered trusting partnership with community will definitely build resilience against violent extremism.

Community policing is predominantly based on preventive and proactive policing. The effective public-Police partnership helps in addressing the diverse issues of public nuisance. Besides handling criminal issues, it strengthens civic engagement, enhances community awareness about redoubtable issues and creates understanding about organized asymmetric nature of crimes.

There comes a signal crime analysis regarding insecurity indicators and panic drivers in the Muslim communities. There are three significant signal crimes such as drug problems, burglary and provocative hate crimes. The hate, racial prejudice and discriminatory crimes are paramount in infusing sense of injustice, insecurity and pushing individuals toward the malady of radicalization.

Forging partnerships with public and private community stakeholders, socializing with residents and community leaders, sharing information, and investigating reports of suspicious or unusual behavior are all components of community policing that are easily accommodate to prevention of terrorism and combating violent extremism

Pakistani Society & Resilience Against Extremism

The Pakistani society is very much resilient, resolute and brave on the front of combating violent extremism. As well as, The menace of militancy, extremism and terrorism has engulfed Pakistan and the smoke screen has started to shed off through the hard military measures.

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Pakistani society has exhibited unprecedented bravery, will and capacity to counter extremism and obscurantism by devising indigenous rehabilitation frameworks and propagating counter narrative in the accepted vernacular to yield magnificent results. Specifically, The exhaustive and elaborate study reflects that Pakistan’s civil society is vibrant on five major levels.

1) The respectable and community leaders glorified the dynamics of peace, prosperity and the social cohesiveness according to indigenous framework that echo in the Urban and local areas.

2) The pamphlets and public awareness campaigns held to educate the public and community about the existing and impending threat of extremism.

3) The legitimacy of the extremist messages was challenged through traditional. And faith-based enlightened religious organizations and help in correction at ideological level.

4) The terrorist’s attacks on innocent civilians were challenged as inhuman and dubbed as act of violence against humanity through the good offices cultural and faith-based organizations

5) The funding to terrorists was chocked and community based organization denounced their act of violence, cause awareness in public to avoid donation. Moreover, to such trusts whose credentials are doubtful.

Moreover, Communities exist within geographical neighborhoods, as interest groups, as political parties, as religious communities, as ethnic groupings, as business communities and many more. “Prevent policing develops community trust”.

Richard English Model to Deal With Terrorism

The long view of terrorism and its roots, presented by Richard English. Proposes a model that offers a number of guiding principles. Further, for dealing with extremism and the terrorists

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1. We are going to have to learn to live with terrorism as part of our political reality.
2. The best way to remove the terrorist symptom is to address the political source, if that is feasible.
3. Intelligence is the most crucial to combat terrorism.
4. Respect orthodox legal frameworks and adhere to the democratically established rule of law.

Moreover, Neighborhood policing can combat extremism. While if state presented as reasonable and fair through its actions by solving the problems identified by community. With the effective and wholesome engagement of community, while the confidence can established on firm footing. Furthermore, with this, more intelligence will available and the result of that engagement will promote cohesion and help in combating extremism.

Communities, Extremism and extreme communities have always existed and are likely to continue to exist. Therefore, the existence of terrorism happens to continue. One of the depressing legacies of the history of terrorism is that is always likely to be with us.

Way Forward

Specifically, there is a dire need to re-evaluate the indomitable 20 points of the National Action Plan. Revamping and reforming the criminal justice system requires to done wholeheartedly. Political reconciliation of all stakeholders in Balochistan will prove to like last nail in the coffin of extremism. However, Militant outfits and armed Gangs should straitjacketed to inhibit their nefarious activities.

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