Police Department Roles and Functions Sharesa Gulley University of Phoenix CJA/214 - Introduction to Police Theory and Practices Evan Cohen January 21‚ 2013 Police Department Roles and Functions Every policing department or agency has a set of organizational goals and values that provide officers with a sense of direction and purpose. Even though these various departments may have different functions‚ policing agencies have similar roles. The roles of police include: The prevention
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* Police officers work in partnership with the communities they serve to maintain law and order‚ protect members of the public and their property‚ prevent crime‚ reduce the fear of crime and improve the quality of life for all citizens. They use a wide range of technology to protect individuals‚ identify the perpetrators of crime and ensure successful prosecutions against those who break the law. Police officers work closely with members of the criminal justice system‚ social workers‚ schools‚ local
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There are two types of personality trait designations that are used to describe police officers. The two types are the unique traits viewpoint‚ and socialization and experience viewpoint. Those who believe in the unique traits viewpoint are often referred to as predisposition personality traits. Also in this viewpoint‚ it insists that law enforcement attracts a certain type of individual to the job. Within this viewpoint‚ some of the traits included are authoritarianism‚ cynicism‚ racism‚ hostility
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Police Organizational Structures Organizations are entities of two or more people who cooperate to accomplish an objective. (Peak‚ Policing America‚ 2012). A police department structure must be parallel so that this way its structure can be effective in completing the overall goal of protecting and helping the public. Over the years police agencies have followed a traditional structure but by the passing of years the structure is starting to evolve.
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One main factor that can be traced through many militarization cases is the complex relationship between the police and the military (Chabat‚ Jorge‚ "Mexico’s War" 135). To begin with‚ the roles and objectives of the military and the police are very different‚ that when combined‚ counteract each other (Bailey‚ John and Dammert‚ Lucia 15). The duty of the police is to protect civil society‚ while also being accountable to them‚ indicating that the use of force is only meant to be used as a last resort
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Complaint procedures at the identified organization The royal St Lucia police force‚ is the organization reasponsible for taking or receiving complaints made by ‚ members of the public‚ against the police and the department that deals with that is the Complaints Unit. Within the Royal St Lucia Police Force officers are sworn in to serve and to protect they play a vital role and a key element in the country’s society’s. The complaints unit was set up to enable members of the public who have felt
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I shadowed at the Police Department in the IT Department as a IT Support Analyst. I had my shadow on Friday‚ December 02‚ 2016 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM and I shadowed with Brian Sherman. The day started off with Brian and I introducing ourselves. He informed me about him starting a year long project with him and his co-workers. They will be working to update and change the communication machines in the Police Cars such as their radios and other little updates throughout the vehicle. He then said
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that has been formed in the past‚ is the Virtual County Police Department. Virtual County Police Department The agency was started by Virtual County community 55 years ago where it was headed by a Chief with an assistant leading small numbers of police officers who relied on farming as their economic activity. Over the last two decades‚ the initiative has been able to become the primary policing agent in the County (Virtual County Police Department‚ 2009). This has been a major achievement since
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APatrick 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
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Police hierarchy has been around since the late 1800s. Almost all law enforcement agencies follow the same organizational structure. Departments can have different variations of titles but essentially have the same functions and responsibilities. Rank is structured in a top down type of hierarchy. “This means that problems that cannot be solved at one level continue to rise through each hierarchical level until a resolution is reached” (Johnson‚ 1994). At the top we have chief‚ then assistant
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