A Critical Examination of Community Participation in Community Policing Practice in the Uttara Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Bangladesh: Implementation and Community Participation

The critical issue of community policing in countries practicing it is how to effectively implement community policing with community participation. This thesis seeks to explore how community participation is being implemented in community policing practice in the Uttara Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Bangladesh. The three key research questions that are focused in this thesis are community participation process, and motivation and challenges for community participation. A qualitative approach was adopted to examine the implementation of community participation in community policing practice in the Uttara Division.