Phase 3: Community Policing in Albania

The aim of the programme remains the same as in the previous phase: Improved trust and partnership between police and community contributes towards safer neighbourhoods. The intervention has been built on three main pillars pillars which are considered mutually necessary in supporting sustainable improvements: 1) improving the effectiveness of implementation of community policing. The first pillar focuses on consolidating and expanding on the ASP adoption of community policing as an approach. This will involve managing any processes of ASP structural change to ensure that gains in community policing approaches are maintained, improving consistency of implementation of community policing across the country and further training of staff in community policing principles. 2) strengthening the police state accountability and coordination along with the community policing analysis capability.The second pillar continues to develop a data driven approach to community policing across the ASP, while strengthening linkages between the parts of government with a remit for ensuring public safety. In doing this it ensures that the ASP makes decisions on the basis of a strong understanding of community priorities, and is capable of leveraging the full range of government capabilities in support of improving community safety; 3) improving police responses to community priorities, including domestic violence. The final pillar focuses on ensuring that the ASP have adequate capacity in the key speciality policing topics of domestic violence, traffic, and youth engagement. This pillar ensures that ASP responses to community priorities are appropriate and grounded in a strong understanding of the issues, the needs of vulnerable groups, and that the police have the appropriate capabilities to provide an adequate response. Finally, as in the previous phases, grants scheme for the civil society organizations will be used to reinforce reforms and improve community engagement by linking and funding relevant CSOs to influence the reforms that are being implemented internally. Possible areas of intervention through the grant scheme should be considered and decided by the Programme Steering Committee (PSC). The initial priorities of the Grants Scheme will be to reinforce LCPS by enabling active and informed community participation and to ensure that community policing is well engaged with motivated community groups representing the range of key stakeholders (at minimum women, youth) in advocacy, municipality and zone level relationship building. By funding small forms of direct support to CSO efforts on community concerns, the CSOs will be able to attend LCPS meetings with an informed sense of actual community issues. The expected results of the intervention are: 1) Police effectively implement community focused approaches 2) Police are well integrated into municipal community safety councils 3) Police respond to community priorities Each result is broken down in outputs that could directly contribute to its achievement.