Abstract: The concept of community policing is community partnership with the police to improve the quality of life, decreasing the fear of crime and cleaning up the neighbourhoods. In theory tackling the quality of life issues and improving informal social control should eventually lead to a decrease in crime. Community policing is seen as a strategy predominantly successfully applied in the industrialised democracies. It is perceived as an Anglo-American model of policing, presumed to be developed in the U.K. and the USA in the 1960s and 1970s. This policing strategy is presented by the academics and practitioners as the answer to crime and disorder problems and police-community conflict. This research investigates the effectiveness of the application of the concept of community policing across three separate geographic locations, which have different social settings. New York has been selected as the cradle of the paradigm of community policing, Sydney Australia as an adopter of the New York model and finally Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) which is classed as a postconflict transitional society. The research explores whether community policing can be universally applied as a policing model. This research reviews a sizable body of academic literature that has investigated the implementation and the evolution of community policing in NY and Sydney. That knowledge then serves as a reference for comparison of measures in place in Sarajevo. The research exploration led to some curious findings.