Objectives

The Police Beat Shopfronts program is an operational policing concept in community policing with the following objectives:

• Improve the community feeling about personal safety;

• Reduce the community fear of crime;

• Satisfy the need for people to communicate more easily with police;

• Raise the perception of risking detection when committing offences; and

• Contribute positively to the Queensland Police Service Strategic Plan.

Definition

'Police Beat' is operational policing. In order to promote the concept to retailers, centre management, the community and police, Police Beat shopfronts must operate as part of the policing environment for the whole area.

Police Beat officers walk the beat, talk to people, solve problems, handle complaints, make arrests and so on. Most occurrences of a policing nature that happens to be in the confines of that beat are handled by the Beat Police.