다문화사회의 지역사회경찰활동 전략 = Strategies to utilize Community Policing in a multi-cultural society

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Korean society is rapidly changing into a multi-cultural society because the number of aliens laborers is increasing and there are many international marriages taking place in Korea. Such a trend in Korea started somewhat later than that in other countries, but it is very quick since a total of 1,158,866 aliens stayed at the end of 2008 and the number has been continually growing. In this situation, the Korean society is required to recognize multi-cultural families as its members and the Korean government has to set up active plans for the multi-cultural society. Because of various cultures and different languages, many crimes take place in a multi-cultural society and make it unstable as well. So, in order to keep a multi-cultural society from diverse social problems, advanced countries actively encourage community policing. This research aims to know the progress that the Korean society is turning into a multi-cultural society, the crimes occurring in the society, and community policing to maintain public order appropriate to the conditions of the society. Before activating community policing, however, it is necessary to make fundamental endeavors for strengthening the intimacy of a local society, for both the police and citizens to understand the concept of a multi-cultural society, and clearly define the scope of a multi-cultural society where community policing will be developed. Furthermore, it is also required that enough manpower should be secured to develop community policing in a multi-cultural society and that PR promoted and intensified in various ways to widely spread community policing.