IMPACT OF COMMUNITY ORIENTED TRAFFIC POLICING ON RED LIGHT VIOLATIONS: COMMUNITY RED LIGHT WATCH PROGRAM

Community-oriented policing is a philosophy that underlines the requirement of citizens' involvement in crime prevention activities. One of the major traffic crimes was red light running in Karakopru town of Sanliurfa Province of Turkey. Because of the inadequate enforcement resources, however, the police department couldn‟t succeed to prevent red light violations. The police department, hence, initiated a community red light watch program to decrease the violations. The purpose of this study was to quantify the effect of the community red light watch program, which was performed by the honorary traffic inspectors. To assess the effect of this program, we employed a pre/post-implementation design. For the current study, the camera records of the five program sites, two non-program sites, and two control sites were utilized. Findings of this study revealed that red light violations did not decrease at the beginning period; however, six months after the program commenced the violations decrease overall 27% at program sites. Friedman test results suggested a Chi-square value of 7,600 which was significant (p

TOPLUM ODAKLI TRAFİK POLİSLİĞİNİN KIRMIZI IŞIK İHLALLERİ ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

Toplum destekli polislik suç önleme çalışmalarına vatandaşların dâhil olması gerektiğinin altını çizen bir felsefedir. Şanlıurfanın Karaköprü ilçesinde başlıca trafik suçlarından biri kırmızı ışık ihlalleridir. Fakat yetersiz denetleme kaynaklarından dolayı emniyet müdürlüğü kırmızı ışık ihlallerini önlemede başarılı olamamıştır. Bu sebeple emniyet müdürlüğü ihlallerin sayısını azaltabilmek için toplum destekli bir kırmızı ışık denetim programı başlatmıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı fahri trafik müfettişleri tarafından gerçekleştirilen toplum destekli kırmızı ışık denetim programının etkisini ölçmektir. Bu programın etkisini değerlendirmek için uygulama öncesi / sonrası ölçme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Bu çalışma için beş program alanı, iki program dışı alan ve iki kontrol alanının kamera kayıtları kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın bulguları, başlangıç döneminde kırmızı ışık ihlallerinin azalmadığını; ancak, programın başlamasından altı ay sonra ihlallerin, program alanlarında genel olarak % 27 oranında azaldığını ortaya koymuştur. Friedman test analiz sonuçları, program alanları için anlamlı olan (p

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