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SABIE Oana FAMP

ROMANIA’S LOCAL POLICE. CURRENT ISSUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS CCASP

1. LITERATURE REVIEW

It is important to examine the history of Romanian police in order to understand its progress over time.
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Alterations to the purpose, duties, and structure of Romanian police institutions have allowed this
profession to evolve into a more effective entity that meets the European Union requirements.

The novelty of the Romania’s local police (Bulea, 2013) and that it has on its back other two institutions
(from historically point of view) - the Public Guardians and Community Police - reveals the need to improve

the system, to ensure public order and local alignment with the new requirements of the millennium. The
manner in which this service implements the specific plan, which is an ultimate goal, perfect attempt to
prevent and combat antisocial actions requires a very complex phenomenon, perfectly in time based on

previous experience and taking into account the evolution of society, inevitable, which brings with it new
requirements, needs and challenges.

Services are useful activities designed to meet social needs, their result is intangible, cannot be stored
30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest At European level The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS, nd) is one of the most popular local police
and they are the main stimulous element of economic competition (Plumb et al., 2003, pp. 52-54).

service in the world and serves the population of London. The public service has over 32,500 employees

(approximately 14,200 people representing administrative staff, 230 employees - traffic controllers, 4,300
employees - Support Community Police Officers). Also, The Metropolitan Police Service is supported by
approximately 3,600 volunteers, mainly from the Metropolitan Constabulary.

We can observe that UK’s local police main values are to put the public interest first, to act with integrity
and fairness as a team (West Midlands Police, nd).

Sweden (Jones and Wiseman, 2006) has established a long-term commitment based on an open,

compassionate and supportive society. These issues have defined the perspective on Community Police,
and have determined the structure and its management. The Swedish legislation was heavily influenced
by European legislation in the field of crime prevention. In 1972 at the national level was created the

National Council for Crime Prevention (represented also locally by approximately 232 entities), which
aims to formulate solutions to the problems across the country and communicate them to local police. It

also provides information to politicians, media and citizens about prevention of crime at local level.

In France, the Community Police has an over 30 years history. Starting with 2002 the Proximity Police
was created. It connects the police with municipalities and directs residents to participate at their own
security and to volunteer with community policies. This is a very important aspect as the local community

participation is reduced, causing a lack of envolvement in society.

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