Community Participatory Policing: An overall review of experiences of community policing in Iran

At present, community participation has been emphasized as a strategy for social sustainable development. In safety sphere, participation is an inevitable necessity. In work scale, it has begun and compelled various projects about participatory policing and it has gained good results. In fact, police organization has been changed from centralize and governmental to community-based and decentralized force. In Iran, projects like neighborhood guard, police helper, safety services and etc. are samples of community policing strategy. The emphasis of this article is on necessity and possibility of community policing in Iran.