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    Throughout history detectives and police have performed amazing feats with their abilities and were involved in some historically important cases of their era throughout the 1800’s till now. Historically local tribal groups were composed of kin-based communities or as villages‚ bands‚ and sometimes regions. Local groups were generally politically and economically autonomous‚ and often maintained kinship‚ political‚ economic‚ and ceremonial ties to other local groups and the collective nation. Beck

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    an arrest is made with a warrant. Meanwhile an arrest could be made without if the probable cause with certain circumstances are presented the time of being arrested. The use of physical restraint or handcuffs is not always necessary. It is when a police officer simply tells a crime suspect that he or she is “under arrest”. During the situation suspects summits without the officers use of physical force. The main purpose‚ authority over a person‚ and that person’s voluntary or involuntary submission

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    Police roles and Functions Paper Tracy Marzano CJA/214 May 16‚ 2013 All law enforcement agencies in the United States are connected to one another due to the fact that most agencies have multi levels of government and overlapping jurisdictions. In general all levels and departments of law enforcement work and co-operate together to protect the citizens‚ and to prevent and solve crimes. Local law enforcement agencies are entrusted with the power to serve and protect the public and maintain peace

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    POLICE OFFICER TRAINING CURRICULUM The curriculum that is devised for a police officer is very important to the police officer and his or her success in their chosen career path. An officer’s training is also very important to the community in which they serve and the department in which they work. An officer must receive training in a variety of fields to help them be a well-rounded police officer. Officers receive training in such areas as: law‚ community relations‚ firearms‚ vehicle driving

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    Rich Barnes Police procedures essay 2/26/10 Pd4/5 Advances in Technologies that impacted on Policing The police have originated from many years ago coming up with new technology to make the people the serve safe. Police officers made a change to patrol on foot to actual patrol cars. They have made it so nobody has to wait for a call to no were crimes is ‚ they have two way radios always strapped around them. And they also made it to where as though they have lab tops in every patrol

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    The police service is usually financed by public funds and serves the benefit of the public at large. However‚ there are situations where the police service makes charges to individuals and organizations to recover costs incurred in the delivery of their services. Section 25 of the Police Act 1996 provides that special police services is provided to any individual who has made payments of charges stipulated by statutory provisions. Special police services relate to policing of events such as concerts

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    Police Encounter Matthew A Loos Kaplan University CJ227: Criminal Procedure Unit 2 Assignment July 15‚ 2013 Officer Smith‚ in my opinion‚ had reasonable suspicion to conduct a traffic stop on the female driver the night in question. According to (Lasker‚ 2012)‚ “In People v. Hackett‚ 2012 IL 111781‚ a unanimous supreme court overturned the appellate and trial court decisions and remanded the case for a trial based on evidence stemming from what the court held to be a justified "investigatory

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    How diversity affects police work? Traci Ann Fuchs August 16‚ 2013 SS 310 Cultural Diversity DR. Don Kirk Macon The role of the police is to enforce the law‚ not to question it. This means that the police have been used to do society ’s racial dirty work--to return runaway slaves to their masters and to enforce segregation in the South. We have only to think of Southern sheriffs like "Bull" Connor to remind us of how the white power structure has fought to maintain its privileges. However

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    notable reforms have occurred in the notable reforms have occurred in the structure and ethos of the police service. Significant efforts have been made to address diversity and integration in the workplace. Being traditionally viewed as a male oriented occupation an important challenge to the police service has been the dismantling of the gender divide in the requirement and subsequent development of police officers. Past research had reported differential deployment of men and women officers’ physical

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    The job of a police officer requires them to put their lives at risk to protect others and the threat seems to end when the uniform is off. Does the threat really end for officers of color? Eric Adams opens a small window into his world as a colored officer with his article‚ “The Thin Blue Line Between Us.” Though he takes his job seriously and upholds his badge with honor‚ he is aware that not all police actions are for the best. He recognizes the brokenness of the system that he must fight against

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