Police and Law Enforcement Response Checkpoint Amanda Robertson CJS/200 8/3/2013 Robert Winkler
Police And Law Enforcement Checklist Response 2
The role of police in society is to protect and serve the community. Maintaining public safety is one of their biggest responsabilities, though all the while trying not to overstep the many roles of the many roles of other officers. Police officers work in a sort of cause and effect manner. For example by apprehending and arrest the criminals they keep the streets safer, or many would say they exercise crime prevention. A big service to the people of the community for example is to provide many services’ to the community. Many times an officer could simply aid a woman in need of assistance from the safety of her job exit to her car, or answering a disturbance call on the 4th of July assisting in the whole street being able to sleep better. These calls seem minute but are a big deal when it comes to city ordinances and keeping the peace. If the role of police were lessoned then the community in itself would not feel as save. Response time in emergency situations would be lessoned. The fact that detectives do a huge part in taking evidence and investigating crime scenes, it still is a small part of police work and that would also be jeopardized, because if police were not able to get there first, then the crime scene could be jeopardized and so could the evidence, The