Police in community in the history of modern Serbian state

Abstract

This paper is aimed at researching the place and role of police officers in community as one of the oldest modalities of police activity since its inception. In addition to establishing its continuous existence and adaptation to social circumstances and security problems, the paper also addresses the needs and possibilities for the application of community poilicing activities under modern conditions. The paper indicates that activities of police officers in a community should be much more in the focus of both scientific research and police management. The need for greater participation of community policing and sector work in the contents and forms of education of professional members of the police in the light of our experiences and the community policing concept is especially emphasized. The paper examines activities of police officers in community starting from the period of the Serbian uprising, then the period of dual rule, as well as the period of Principality and the Kingdom of Serbia, then the Kingdom of SCS / Yugoslavia, the Second World War, and finally, the period from the Second World War until today, within which we distinguish time of socialism and social self-protection, 1990s, and changes after 2000.