Abstract
This paper seeks to investigate the extent to which Community policing has assisted in addressing plethora of internal security problems that engulfed the Nigerian state, especially since 2008. The study adopts historical and survey research methods in the analyses of community policing failure and internal security programme implementation in Nigeria. The results of analyses revealed community policing as a concept and the new methodological approach to internal security governance, particularly in the third world. This is due largely to the abuse of its application by Some security agencies conventionally and security agencies conventionally and constitutionally responsible for policing and intelligence gathering such as the Nigerian Police Force, Department of State Service (DSS), the Nigerian Army, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigerian Custom Services, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and the target community members for whom Community Policing was designed to serve. The study concludes that community policing still has the capacity to reduce the alarming rate of crimes and escalating internal security problems in Nigeria if major constraints such as political, psychological, economic, physiological, sociological and cultural factors are adequately addressed by policy makers for effective internal security governance in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends among others the need for total overhauling of the security system in Nigeria and institutionalization of agenda-driven ethical re-orientation of the people towards the value system of families and communities in the Nigerian state.
Keywords: Community Policing, Internal Security, Public Policy, Programme Implementation.
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/fujpam.2025.v4i02.013
author/Iwejuo, N.C., Nwagboso, N.S., Abdallah, M., Agi, A.E. & Elejie, A.R.
journal/FUJPAM Vol. 4, No. 2
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