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    A detective is a police officer‚ whose duty is to detect criminals‚ by in-depth investigation of cases. When attempting to solve a crime‚ detectives conduct a criminal investigation that seeks all the facts about a crime to help determine the truth: what happened and who is responsible. This involves making a preliminary and final investigation. A detective’s task is to gather‚ organize‚ and use information about social behavior. To effectively complete that task a detective should possess

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    Stress on police officers

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    01/30/2014 CRJ 180 Police Stress in the field Police officers have one of the highest suicide rates in the nation‚ possibly the highest. They have a high divorce rate‚ about second in the nation. They are problem drinkers about twice as often as the general population. The facts are warning signals for unseen problems

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    Police Equality And Justice

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    The state has an independent authority to govern itself and the mandate to govern and protect its citizens. The law enforcement officers are the agents of enforcing the law‚ and the police play a very significant role in promoting peace. There are policies that guide how the police maintain law and order and which describe the growing series of actions that an officer can take when resolving a situation. These policies recognize the rights of the people‚ and that the police have the instruction to

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    Term Paper CRIM 129 CH1 Job Related Struggles of a Police Officer John MacDonald Professor Alex Peters November 19‚ 2013 The job of a police officer is much more demanding than what is commonly displayed DELETE on television. It is often PORTRAYED/DEPICTED as fighting crime‚ but in reality it is A MULTI-FACETED PROFESSION. As a police officer‚ the safety of the general public is a key responsibility. THEREFORE‚ POLICE face danger ON A DAILY BASIS‚ yet they must handle all situations

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    Police Brutality Theory

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    My thesis police brutality is a result of structural racism that is cohesively entwined with social conflict theory‚ Laissez Faire racism and institutional racism and consequently stereotyping. In this paper I will discuss the validity and the long term effect of police brutality within the African- American community. Concluding with my hypothesis on a solution that may lessen the chance of police brutality within the African American Community. Police brutality is overstepping the use of force

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    Police Brutality Notes

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    Police brutality notes: http://graphs.net/police-brutality-statistics.html : 25% of all united state police officers say that they have witnessed fellow officers harassing a citizen “most likely because of his/her race” More than 10‚000 complaints of police abuse were filed only in Chicago in a time span of 2 years. Only 19 resulted in meaningful disciplinary action. Graphs.net. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2015. <http://graphs.net/      police-brutality-statistics.html>. http://www.bustle.

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    Career of Police Officer

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    Downey Mr. Ausmus Coms 101 9 March 2009 Police Officer . Introduction   b. Attention Getter i. To get you attention I would like to inform you about what a police officer gets to carry with him at all times in order to protect himself from the bad guys: his first line of defense is his pepper spray‚ than asp‚ than handcuffs‚ than tazer‚ than his weapon that has a fifteen round clip with one in the chamber making sixteen rounds‚ if he runs out of that he has two more clips on his side. Awesome… no

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    Peru Police Effectiveness

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    Effectiveness of Police Force: 1.5 Because of the corruption and poverty in Peru‚ the police forces are on the side of the rich or who gives them money. Therefore‚ the population does not trust police forces and sometimes communities do their own rules. For instances‚ Unions throughout the country have been striking and protesting for better living conditions and against some of President Alejandro Toledo?s economic policies during the past year. For example‚ in April 2002‚ the government had

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    keeping stakeholders informed. This comes under corporate communications. Corporate communications aim to improve how well-informed people feel and build reputation‚ through internal and external marketing campaigns and activities designed to improve understanding about the MPS‚ its services and goals which in your case is to make London safer for all the people you serve. This has been supported by various theorists in the past‚ the most related being Van Riel who describes corporate communication

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    construct a workable definition of the police role will typically come away with old images shattered and a newfound appreciation for the intricacies of police work” (Dempsy) Police officers are faced each day with a vast array of situations with which they must deal. No two situations they encounter are ever the same‚ even when examines a large number of situations over an extended period of time. The officers are usually in the position of having to make decisions on how to handle a specific matter alone

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