Abstract
Police agencies throughout the world find themselves facing competing demands. On the one hand, the community policing movement emphasizes the need to focus at a neighborhood level and to increase ties with local citizens, businesses, and neighborhood groups. At the same time, processes of globalization and technological innovation generate new forms of crime, criminal organizations, and terrorism that span national borders. Rather than making a forced choice between a local or global focus, the thesis of this article is that police agencies will need to expand their mission to include both global and local dimensions. Examination of both community policing and transnational policing identifies a set of core principles that can guide a new model of global and local policing. These include partnerships, proactive and strategic problem solving, targeted deterrence, smart prosecution, outcome‐based accountability, ethics and leadership. Examples drawn from the U.S. Department of Justice's Project Safe Neighborhoods and the Drug Enforcement Administration's model of transnational policing are used to illustrate these core principles. The article concludes by considering the tensions and challenges that emerge and that must be addressed if this model of global and local policing is to be successful.
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