Procedural Justice, Rebuilding Public Trust in Policing to Enhance Community Relations

This research paper examines how a procedural justice policing approach affects how people perceive their duty to follow police orders. It investigates whether the degree of confidence that a citizen has in law enforcement during a police-citizen encounter may have an impact on how procedural justice functions in relation to their duty to uphold the law. The effectiveness of procedural justice in enticing citizens to uphold the law is examined, as well as the possibility that citizens' trust in the authorities may play a role in this. Numerous studies have examined how procedural justice affects people's attitudes toward and cooperation with the police and other elements of the criminal justice system, but many of these investigations did not break down procedural justice into its different strands, such as police procedural justice.The public's perception of the police will increase if they execute their authority in a  procedurally fair manner, according to Tyler's process- based model of policing. In the past, process-based study  has largely ignored public trust in the police in favor of  focusing on the sources of legitimacy. Tyler's process- based policing model argues that the police can improve  the public's view of their legitimacy and dependability by exercising their power in a procedurally fair manner. Up until now, process-based research has mostly disregarded the legitimacy of the police and focused on the sources of legitimacy.

Keywords:- Public Encounters, Procedural Justice, Policing, Training, Policing, Trust, Legitimacy, Procedural Justice Theory, Obligation to Obey Police; Police-Citizen Encounters.