The Direction of Police Community Policy In The Prevention of Traffic Accidents In Polda Metro Jaya

Abstract

AbstractThere are three core functions of the police, law enforcement, order maintenance, and services to the community or public services. One part of the law enforcement function is preventing and overcoming traffic violations. Traffic accidents have a large and detrimental impact, and this is one from many indicator of the success of the police. Traffic accidents are often caused by drivers who does not obeying the rules, so they endanger themselves or others. In addition to violations by drivers, other things that become the factors occurrence of traffic accidents are road quality, human error, and vehicle worthiness.The purpose of this study was to determine the direction of community policing policies in dealing with traffic violations, and efforts to develop community policing models by paying attention to public participation and the role of the police in preventing traffic violations.The results obtained show that significant factors that caused the occurrence of high accidents per population were factors related to drivers or human factors, where the dominant violation was a violation of the speed limit. By knowing that the main factor of accidents is the human element, the policies taken to overcome this are policies related to humans, namely community policing.Keywords: Police Community, Traffic Violations, Traffic Accidents