The community policing strategies varies, depending on the needs and responses of the communities involved. However, certain basic principles and considerations are common to all community policing efforts. Community policing entails community partnership in creating a safe and secure environment for all in which people take active part in their own affairs. Policy toward community policing has gained momentum in recent years as police and community leaders search for more effective ways to promote public safety and to enhance the quality of life in their neighborhoods. The increased incidence of crime since the end of the military regime has resulted to the proliferation of heavily armed vigilante groups in nearly every corners of Nigeria. Chiefs and other policing officials are currently assessing what changes in orientation, organization, and operations will allow them to benefit the communities they serve by improving the quality of the services they provide. This paper, therefore, discusses urban community policing as it  encompasses a variety of philosophical and practical approaches concerning crime
control.