Police Department Roles and Functions Nancy Anderson CJA/214 August 11‚ 2012 Miriam Moore Police Department Roles and Functions Police officers play many roles. In the United States the mission of law enforcement is to maintain social order and public safety by reducing crime. To accomplish this and preserve the peace‚ officers have five main responsibilities (CJi Interactive‚ 2011). The first of these responsibilities is to enforce the law. To be able to do this the law enforcement officer
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serve and protect the community. How the police interact with the community‚ influences police ethical and moral behaviors. Police behavior is influenced by ethics and ethics is an important role in a police officer’s everyday life. Police are giving a high level of dependence‚ trust and authority which if provoked‚ can easily cause unethical behavior among certain police officers. Ethics‚ integrity and moral decision is an example of what an ethical police officer should follow. Ethics is defined
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Response Structure Karrie Colin AJS/562 January 28‚ 2013 George Wilson Response Structure Creating an emergency response plan is very important in any business. There are different plans for medical‚ fire‚ police‚ and school. The following plans are imperative in any environment. There are many things that will happen and Incident Command System (ICS) will help to provide the responders with an effective system that works. But before we go into the structures‚ an understanding of an incident
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Militarization of the Police Imagine a military grade tank rolling down your residential street‚ 撤OLICEspray painted on the gunner. In many parts of the country this is now a reality. In one county 6 million dollars was allocated to local police for armored vehicles. (Levitz) This and other military grade weapons have sparked a debate in the nation about militarizing the police. If you take into account‚ the original purpose of special forces‚ money spent‚ and the proportional response to a crime‚ militarization
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Unprofessional Police Officers and Corruption Within The Police Force In the Internet I have found an interesting web-site “Bad Cop‚ No Donut”. This is a “weekly wrap-up of North American police brutality‚ misconduct and corruption”. In other words there are plenty examples of unprofessional police officers. Here I found three situations to analyze. The first situation is described in the article “Woman dies after being struck by police officer during shootout”‚ In general it looks like a
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of the police force are government officials who enforce the laws and maintain social order. They are engaged in a dangerous and stressful occupation that can involve violent situations that must be controlled. In many of their confrontations with the public it may be necessary for the police to administer force to take control of a suspect. Every day‚ law enforcement officers face danger while carrying out their responsibilities. When dealing with a risky‚ unpredictable situation‚ police officers
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Should the police be armed? There have been quite a lot of controversies over the issue whether the police should be armed or not. Nowadays‚ police officers in most of the countries are armed when they are patrolling. However‚ police officers in New Zealand‚ the United Kingdom‚ Iceland‚ Falkland Island and Norway are literally unarmed‚ except for those who are committed in airport security and anti-terrorism work. In countries such as China‚ the United States and Russia‚ the media often adduce
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because of a police culture that exalts loyalty over integrity. Armao & Cornfeld (1994) suggest that honest officers are silenced by their fear of ``ratting’’ on another cop no matter how grave the crime. Corruption is not uncommon for those officers who remain undercover; in fact‚ it is an easier gateway to fall custom to the "bad apples". Corruption as defined by Roebuck and Barker (1974) as any form of ‘deviant‚ dishonest‚ improper‚ unethical or criminal behavior by a police officer. Police departments
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CONTEMPORARY POLICE PROBLEMS Some critiques have said that a small percentage of law enforcement officers who are responsible for the misdeeds of the organization that have brought public criticism upon them. This very fact makes the indifference of police heads to the situation all the more reprehensible subject to criticism. Generally‚ when the police administrators are bought to task for permitting improper practices and misbehavior to continue‚ they are quick to blame political interference
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Regardless of the fact that both the Police College and Police Force have been striving to promote in its formal structure‚ this study shows that informal channels of bias were still largely affected by perceptions and influence cadets’ training the College or their duties in the Police Force. It is investigated that the Police College is highly gender-segregated‚ which female and male cadets merely know each other and have minimal interactions. We can tell little effort was paid to challenge and
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