• Dr. Gezahegn Gurmu

Ethiopian community policing institution was established in 2005, after 72 years of formal conventional police foundation in 1946 by Emperor Haileselassie. The purpose was to transform and to improve crime prevention and control of social disorder in the country. The major objective of the study was to investigate the satisfaction status of Adama City community as predicted from police officers procedural justice in service provision, frequency of police contact with community members in obtaining information, and performance effectiveness in peace keeping. Adama City was selected for the study as it was a city known for hot business transactions (the main road and the rail way from Addis Ababa to Djibouti cross it). The 384 study participants were determined to be residents whose age was between 15 and 64 years inclusive to avoid fallacy of maturity.Themeasured variables were: satisfaction status on community policing services, level of customers’ contact with police officers, safety feeling, procedure of justice, and performance effectiveness. The result indicated participants’ low satisfaction with community policing implementation as a result of poor procedural justice work, lack of feeling safety, and low performance of the community policing. The recommendations included: 1) building positive attitude towards community policing; 2) increasing contact of police officers with neighborhood community; 3) training on keeping procedural justicein providing community policing,skills of crime prevention and solving social disorders.

Key terms: - community policing, satisfaction, procedural justice, safety, contact, performance

"THE STATUS OF COMMUNITY POLICING AND ITS CHALLENGES IN ADAMA CITY, OROMIA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.721-727, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808585.pdf

"THE STATUS OF COMMUNITY POLICING AND ITS CHALLENGES IN ADAMA CITY, OROMIA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp721-727, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808585.pdf