Introductory Handbook on Policing Urban Space

The Handbook builds on the basic concepts and principles reflected in the United
Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice that relate to
policing and that are outlined in other United Nations documents on the subject
as well as in the wider range of scholarly and policy literature. It seeks to provide
practitioners, including government officials, police, municipal planners and members
of civic groups, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with a basic conceptual
grounding in democratic policing, and guidelines on good practices so that
they can successfully undertake democratic policing in the urban contexts in which
they operate.