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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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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There are many reasons for a police officer to exercise discretion. Police discretion is a choice by a law enforcement officer based on his or her training and experience whether to investigate or apprehend‚ the disposition of suspects and the application of sanctions (Schmalleger‚ 2015). Perhaps the most common practice for using discretions would be in those instances were the police handbook falls short‚ better known as the gray areas. Furthermore‚ police officers have also been known to use discretion
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Police Ethics and Deviance Ethics and the police is a subject that most people are interested in. When people use the words ethics and police in the same sentence‚ people usually think of police deviance‚ police corruption‚ misconducts such as drug and alcohol abuse‚ sexual violence‚ domestic disputes‚ and violence within families. Most common subjects people most associate with police ethics is police brutality‚ police deception‚ and abuse of their authority. Police officers in the United
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Many cases and people are found by the expert nose of a canine. They play an important role in police duties and cases. K-9’s has made the police force more efficient. This gives us more deaths‚ bombs‚ and illegal drugs found. With the help of these dogs it makes the duties of a police officer and community a lot easier. K-9 dogs also known as police dogs have evolved and changed over time. These dogs were used all the way back from modern time. Romans used dogs for mainly hunting and security. The
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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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of force inherent in the state’s police capabilities can avert the need for wholesale repression. But a colonial has to be cautious in arming a police force; most of them are recruited from a
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THE MILITARIZATION OF LOCAL POLICE Derrick A. Harris Abstract SWAT teams are increasingly being deployed across the country -- and it ’s happening with almost no supervision. For nearly half a century‚ America’s police forces have undergone a process of “militarization.” They’ve upped their cache of assault weapons and military defense gear‚ increasingly deployed SWAT teams to conduct ops-style missions on civilians‚ and inculcated a warrior attitude within their rank. While major metropolitan areas
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Meaghan Loving Ethics in Criminal Justice Police Corruption Essay Police Corruption can be defined as a form of police misconduct in which law enforcement officers break their social contract and abuse their power for personal or department gain. There are three forms of police corruption. These forms are Nonfeasance‚ which involves failure to perform legal duty‚ another form is Misfeasance‚ which is failure to perform legal duty in a proper manner‚ and the third form is Malfeasance‚ which is commission
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Unethical Police Operations Paper Kareem Dorsey CJA 214 January 10‚ 2013 Scott McMillion . Police officer asking for sexual favors while on duty is a misuse of power and displays corruption and a bad representation of ethics for the police department. English heritage played in an integral part in modern American policing. Corruption has been a problem in most police departments everywhere. The problem has been corrected within most departments but is still a major problem. Brutality
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