| dc.description.abstract | Security is a critical component of the national political and development agenda. The prevalence of traditional, informal security governance practices, particularly in Africa, demonstrates their continuing relevance in people’s lives and the ambivalent relationship they continue to have with modern statutory institutions. In many contexts, non-state actors play an important role in delivering security and justice services. In other contexts, however, those actors can undermine security, contribute to human rights violations, and challenge the role and responsibility of the state. The main objective of the study was to investigate the impact of community policing on crime rate in Kenya with specific reference to community policing in Eastleigh. This study used both primary and secondary data in analyzing the variables. The primary data was obtained from personnel in the police force in Eastleigh. Secondary data included data gathered from documents search such as media reports, analysis and review of published books, journals, papers, periodicals, and unpublished works as well as government's official documents. The findings from these primary and secondary data once collected was be analyzed through SPSS and content analysis. The study found out that non-state plays a significant role in matters of security in that they are policing the local prevailing norms about what is a crime and how it should be addressed so as to restore community harmony. They exist not just because the state police are ineffective in enforcing order, but because the police are often perceived as enforcing an alien, inappropriate, or erroneous order. Certainly, the study found out that there are criticisms of local non-state actors playing the role of community policing as some are prone to human rights abuses and may be unreliable, have poor skills, and lack both transparency and vertical accountability as well as lack of confidence in the law enforcement agencies tasked with protecting the citizens hence the poor adoption of the initiative. | |
