Abstract:
The role of community participation in crime prevention in Gambella Town plays an important
role in reducing crime because it enables regular people to participate and producing public
safety and security alongside police participants. The study's goals are to evaluate the roles of
community members in crime prevention, pinpoint the mechanisms of community participation in
crime prevention. The study employed was descriptive by design and qualitative in approach.
Participants of the study were 36 (thirty-six) that were selected by using the purposive sampling
from community elders, youth, police officers, and court judges of the community participants of
Newland 01 Kebele, one of the selected kebele in the study areas. The data gathering tools
employed for the study were primary data, which was gathered by key informant interviews,
focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and a field observational checklist with semistructured questions from selected participants that stopped at 36 participants, and secondary
data gathered from related documents, such as journal articles and different books from the
website and the gathered data were analyzed inductively. The major findings were significant
factors of community participation in prevention crime since 2022, the lack of trust between
community and law enforcement, language and cultural barriers, murders, and suicides.
