Community Policing and Public Trust: Pakistan Pre-Analysis Plan
Published - Mar 9, 2020This RCT examines the impact of two policing innovations in Pakistan: citizen-centric problem-oriented policing (CPOP) and gender inclusive citizen-centric problem-oriented policing (CPOP-G)1. The CPOP arm incorporates community engagement and problem-oriented policing. The CPOP-G arm engages women in addition to men. Because local social norms prevent mixed-gender meetings, and because women may not be willing to discuss family and gender-related issues in mixed company, female constables in the CPOP-G arm will conduct woman-only forums.
The study site is the Sheikhupura Range. Both arms will be piloted in Kasur district and the actual experiment run in Sheikhupura and Nakana districts. Key outcomes are: citizen perceptions of crime and safety; police perceptions of citizens; police activity as measured through surveys and administrative data; and crime levels measured through administrative
data. We will use a wide range of administrative data as well as surveys of citizens and police to measure changes in policing practices.
1Between the submission of the first PAP and the rollout of the experiment there was a national election in Pakistan. The government of Punjab changed hands from the PML-N party to PTI. PTI made ADR a key part of its agenda, raising the political profile of such programs and making an experiment on EADR politically untenable. We worked with the Punjab Police to design an alternative treatment variant that would expand knowledge on community policing. We jointly settled on CPOP-G which incorporates female officers and female-specific meetings in order to better address family-related crimes and enable women to share information in a safe and comfortable setting
