Problems among Police Officers Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse Domestic violence and substance abuse among law enforcement is double that of the general population‚ these issues affect officers work performance. This report examines the factors plaguing officers and the treatment options available. 2012 Tweet HP 2/25/2012 Domestic Violence Hundreds of women are beaten each year by unlikely batterer-police officers. There are only a few departments in the United States that have
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Police Department Organization Paper 01-09-2012 CJA/214 Instructor: Robert Ferrier Police Department Organization Paper Local police departments‚ including city and county agencies‚ represent a third level of law enforcement activity in the United States. The term local police encompass a wide variety of agencies. Municipal departments‚ rural sheriff’s departments‚ and specialized groups like campus police and transit police. There are approximately 12‚700 municipal police
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POLICE AND CRIME PREVENTION IN NIGERIA Akintunde Kabir Otubu ~ Sunday A. Coker Introduction The importance of law and order to orderly development and growth of a society‚ both in the physical and economic sence‚ cannot be over emphasized. It is only a mind that is secured and at peace that can rationally address the issues of procreation‚ economic development and societal growth. A disturbed mind is a restless and distraught personality. It is therefore imperative to have peace and order in the
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Career Research Paper Police officers have played a major role in society by protecting us from crime. Their responsibilities include not only preserving the peace‚ preventing criminal acts‚ enforcing the law‚ investigating crimes‚ and arresting those who violate the law but also directing traffic‚ community relations work‚ and controlling crowds at public events. Law enforcement officers are a part of our communities to protect and serve us from danger and to apprehend criminals that disobey the
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to make on a daily basis in regards to police pursuits. This also includes the potential safety risks to the public‚ officers and suspects that are involved or not involved in a police pursuit. This paper will also highlight the statistics of police pursuits as well as the efforts and processes that are involved in making police pursuit policies. Police pursuits are often sudden decisions that have the potential to affect many other people’s lives. Police pursuits are a hard subject to fully understand
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Police deviance may be viewed as a very controversial topic by some and most people hold an opinion about it because of the nature of the policing profession. Using the positivist perspective involving empirical knowledge deviance can be defined as “a determined behaviour‚ a product of causation; hence‚ casual‚ explanatory theory can be developed” (Thio 2010:11). As a result of this view‚ police deviance in regards to breaking the law can be justifiable because police work can be stressful. Decades
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08 May 2015 How Many Police Shootings Really Occur? In the United States‚ the public tends to keep track of a lot of things. They have data on how many pigs and hogs are in the United States. The government has data on how many people have been victims of shark attacks that were humanly provoked in 2010. So why can the public not have data on how many people have been killed by police officers in the United States? Is the problem with society‚ or is it with the police force? There are many questions that need to be
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Gender inequality in the Police Force on which covers all the police jobs‚ police officers and detectives‚ law enforcement officers‚ inspectors‚ These are some included and work to protect‚ gather information‚ serve and show situations. Police and detectives are always investigating and ready for the worst‚ These Police jobs are into people who break the law r create “bad” situation or warnings.There is a time when police officers only make reports which are processed and deal with paperwork. People
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1. Define knowledge and skills required to be an effective supervisor of police personnel. An effective supervisor should be versatile and about to adapt to any situation. An effective supervisor should have active listening skills‚ by taking the time to understand the points being made‚ asking the appropriate questions‚ and not interrupting the speaker. The supervisor should be able to convey information effectively. Use logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses to find alternative
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The Purpose and Effectiveness of Police Patrols To begin studying this topic I’d like to provide a brief definition of a patrol officer. In law enforcement‚ patrol officers are uniformed police officers assigned to patrol specified geographic areas. They are the officers most commonly encountered by the public. Their duties include responding to calls for service‚ making arrests‚ resolving disputes‚ taking crime reports‚ and conducting traffic enforcement‚ and other crime prevention measures. The
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