Community based policing should be linked to community-based security measures. Only an organised community can make residents secure. This requires people living in a particular neighbourhood to initiate and sustain close ties to ensure their common security.
For example, they could exchange phone numbers so that when any person in a group is faced with danger, he or she may alert any such member of the group for onward transmission to all the members who could discuss and exchange measures to be able to address the threat. Such community spirit is what is required.
Recent developments have confirmed there are persons among us who are capable of killing for money and other material things. Such people do not have a sense of belonging to the human race, a continent or country. They can rightly be classified as beasts of no nation.
It is the duty of society to inculcate values that would reinforce a love of country and people and a sense of belonging to the human race. This is urgent if killing just for material things would be averted in a society.
