Role of Social Capital in Tehran Neighborhoods Safety: a Neighborhood Orineted Approch To Secuirty

Abstract. One of the missions of the neighborhood police is to largely cooperate with local bodies and citizens to maintain security in neighborhoods. The current research was aimed to "explore the social capital of security of Tehran's neighborhoods with a Neighborhood Security Approach". The methodology employed involved two documentary and survey (inventory) forms. The statistical population of this research consisted of District 16, Tehran with three police stations of Khazane Bokhara'ea, Naziabad and Javadye, and the sample volume included 400 citizens. The sampling procedure was performed via convenience random method. In the end, using Lisrel and SPSS software, data were analyzed and the inventory was described. Research results indicated that there was a direct relationship between social capital and security. The more social capital decreases in neighborhoods, the less security will be displayed, and vice versa; the more social capital, the more security in such neighborhoods. It was found out that public participation, was considered a kind of social capital and the more people cooperate with police forces in establishing security of their own neighborhoods, the more they will see their neighborhood security rising. It was also shown that citizens or local officials were doing all their best to cooperate with police forces to maintain peace and security. Also, public awareness and necessary education about local laws and regulations by the police force were found to have positive effects on establishing security in neighborhoods, and the citizens had full social trust in police forces' performance to establish security