Police Discretion Case Analysis Albeiro E. Florez Law Enforcement Administration CCJS 340 Due by 13 October 2013 Author Note Albeiro E. Florez‚ Department of Criminal Justice‚ University of Maryland University College. This report is a response to Professor Jeffrey B. Bumgarner’s project 2 directives. Correspondence concerning this report should be addressed to Albeiro E. Florez‚ Department of Criminal Justice‚ University of Maryland University College‚ Adelphi eCampus‚ Adelphi‚ MD
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Dilemma of a Police Officer Professions are guided by codes of ethics to aid them in performance of their duties and to ensure maintenance of high standards of conduct. Police officers are faced with a maze of obligations in the performance of their official duties. The “Law Enforcement Code of Ethics” and “Canons of Police Ethics” were created to make explicit the conduct considered appropriate for police officers and to guide them in the performance of their duties. Although police have these guides
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Police Department Organization Paper University of Phoenix CJA/214 February 15‚ 2011 The organizational structure of most American police departments is a bureaucracy with an authoritarian management style; the only exception is smaller departments which have a more informal management style and simple organizational structure (Katz and Walker‚ 2008). Most departments have a civil service system to govern personal policies‚ except for the smallest agencies. The majority of larger departments
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Training for police officers is essential to the police department and the community. It allows the officer a pre-glimpse of what the roles and duties of a career in law enforcement will be like. During police training‚ officers will be tested and then evaluated on his or her performance. Officers will be tested on his or her physical or mental state. Both mental and physical state are essential to the livingly-hood of the officers and the department. One type of training that focus on the officer’s
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ILA Policing‚ Part I CJA100 1. Explain the role that state law enforcement agencies play in enforcing the law‚ and describe the two major models of state law enforcement organization. State-level police agencies were created in the late nineteenth century to combat specific criminal activity‚ and prevent further criminal activity that crossed the boundaries of cities and counties within a specific state. For instance‚ the Texas Rangers were created prior to Texas becoming a state (1835)
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was a K-9 Police officer named officer rose. He works in the concord police station at the moment when I interviewed him. For a typical day for officer rose would have been driving around with his dog answering calls‚ but unfortunately he got injured on the job so he’s stuck at the police station answering phone calls. He would answer different kind of calls like alarm calls‚ domestic calls‚ investigation calls‚ and etc. He also has to deal with ignorant people who come to the police station‚ when
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Police Department Roles and Functions CJA/214 September 20‚ 2012 Scott Mann Roles and Functions The Police Department must serve many roles and purposes so they also must take care of any issues that arise‚ dealing with the law or public safety. For this reason they have different specialized concentrations of officers designed to carry out certain functions. This also varies according to jurisdiction where there are state‚ local and even federal jurisdictions. This also affects what are
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Police officers play a very important part in society today. They patrol the streets of your town to make the people of that town as safe as possible. Without them there would be a lot of crime going on. They make everything safer because that is their job and that is what there trained to do. To become a police officer today you need to have to complete a certain amount of tasks. First‚ you have to be a United States citizen. Next‚ he or she must have to have graduated high school
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he or she has to go by a protocol. A police officer takes an oath upon graduation as to his or her expectation. The Ethical Considerations are laid out realistically and in perfect order as to where anywhere can under the meaning of each. Not only should the Police Ethics reviewed periodically‚ but they should be on display where anyone can see that they are standardized (National Criminal Justice Reference Service‚ n.d.). The ethical obligations that police officers adhere to when carrying out
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2014 Gender and Police Stress In every profession there is a strong possibility for stress but in law enforcement the stress factors are more powerful then those of other professions. In the earlier years of law enforcement there have been tests and studies done to determine what exactly causes the stress and what methods worked to combat those stressful feelings for male police officers. However‚ in today’s society female police officers are becoming more prevalent in police agencies all around
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