{"id":25381,"date":"2013-08-08T23:07:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=25381"},"modified":"2013-08-08T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T03:07:53","slug":"community-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/08\/community-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Policing \u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25382\" title=\"Communiuty policing\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Communiuty-policing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/>There is no one commonly recognized definition of community policing, and there is an uncautious tendency to label anything and everything as community policing.\u00a0 However, the best working definition would be &#8220;a department-wide\u00a0philosophy\u00a0of\u00a0full-service,\u00a0personalized\u00a0and\u00a0decentralized policing, where citizens feel\u00a0empowered\u00a0to work in\u00a0proactive partnerships\u00a0with the police at\u00a0solving\u00a0the\u00a0problems\u00a0of crime, fear of crime, disorder, decay, and quality of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Community policing is one the keys that the Lee County Sheriff has been providing county wide but it\u2019s been more and more noticeable in the Community of Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County Sheriff Office has a wide variety of presentations are offered by our Florida Crime Prevention Practitioners. These presentations vary in length and are a\u00a0free\u00a0service of the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. These presentations provide information and tips to promote safety and help prevent crime.<\/p>\n<p>They also they offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheriffleefl.org\/main\/index.php?r=community\/evntView&amp;id=34\">Business Watch<\/a>, Neighborhood Watch Programs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheriffleefl.org\/main\/index.php?r=community\/evntView&amp;id=113\">Citizens Academy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheriffleefl.org\/main\/index.php?r=community\/evntView&amp;id=150\">House of Worship Safety and Security<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheriffleefl.org\/main\/index.php?r=community\/evntView&amp;id=99\">Volunteer Observers Impacting Community Efforts<\/a> (VOICE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no one commonly recognized definition of community policing, and there is an uncautious tendency to label anything and everything as community policing.\u00a0 However, the best working definition would&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}