Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the level of the peoples participation in the Community Police Project of Play Praya Police Station in Play Praya Sub- District, and to investigate the problems occurring during the project. The sample group consisted of 396 people who were residing in 4 districts and 7 communities under the supervision of the Play Praya Police Station. Questionnaires were used as tools to collect the data. The statistics employed in analyzing the collected data were frequency, percentage, arithmetic means, and S.D.
The results of the study revealed as follows :
The level of the peoples participation as a whole and in each area was found to be moderate (2.63). The area which was participated in most was activities of the Project (2.16). 2. Regarding the problems found during the project, it was revealed as follows : 1) activities of the project : the people did not participate in crime protection activities of the project due to lack of understanding and the relationship between police and the people. 2) the low level of participation : the people in the communities lacked opportunities in planning and evaluating the project due to lack of understanding and interest in the project.