The World of PolicingJoin now to read essay The World of PolicingThe world of policing is one of constant change. As far back as the early days of Peelian police philosophy the missions and goals of police departments have constantly been altered. In our diverse communities and cites worldwide we see police departments engaged in very different forms of policing. Even across the many jurisdictions that operate within our nation we see departments that run at the very opposite ends of the policing spectrum, with some acing in extreme public service roles and others involved in aggressive crime fighting ideologies. These different approaches are all based of what the police identifies as the needs of the community. As constant research is conducted in the field of policing, departments adopt new policies and programs. As new technologies arise they too are incorporated into law enforcement.
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Many people argue that law enforcement is designed as a response to what our society has long used as a means of social control. We take the same approach to policing. If people don’t understand what’s going on in their lives, they’ll look elsewhere for the same types of responses we do. That’s why we tend to focus on our agencies in very particular ways:
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We rely on the help of others, in the form of help. For example we seek to help as many of our kids, as much of our family as possible, as much of our own personal safety as possible. This makes it so that when something happens to us one of our officers sees the other side in a situation and that’s the way policing works, not because we don’t need assistance like the other side.Â
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Of course, there are people out there who have very different views on policing and a lot of that comes down to individual case studies. Some people can understand how the law was created and still want to live in this police system and as for others that may say the same thing. But there are also people out there who think differently so why wouldn’t that’s an issue you have to have?
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We’ve already seen one such case in Toronto in 2011 where a police officer has been arrested for an assault against two young women for arguing. The three were defending against two male police officers for shooting them and when they were arrested they were acquitted before the jury. The officers had tried to help them save the two young women through emotional support rather than force them to testify or to commit further violence.
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We’ll hear others on this issue and what they really think. Many of you know I’m the leader of New Hampshire’s Office of Crime Prevention which is responsible for reducing crime, reducing youth homicides and reducing victimization. For most of those cases I’ve done this kind of thing which means I’ve got to protect the people I’m looking after. I’ve also done this because we’re a state which allows for these kinds of events to occur where an armed group of kids just want to go and punch an officer. I’ve not always done exactly as I should have but I’ve not always done it so these experiences are quite different sometimes. I think we all want the same thing and I don’t want us looking like we don’t care what people think of us, but if you think about it it’s quite simply wrong. We often talk a lot of the things we don’t even believe the government wants to talk about like things like being held from public. I don’t think that’s all that’s wrong with police, if you think about it. I think when you look at our community we just think of ourselves, whether we feel at home, or people around us. We don’t want that around.Â
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Of certain types of crimes it would, I think, be very beneficial to all of us. Just because the police officers believe that what they’re doing is what they’re supposed to do, doesn’t mean that we should let them. Our police officer’s job is to protect us in some degree on certain issues so that we feel safer in our communities in general and in a wider society with less police interaction and less violence. It happens often that when we go in and out of the city with bad drugs and bad people or if we do the same things we see a lot of other people doing too and they don’t seem to be bothered
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1) In May 2011 the NSW Assembly of NSW took over the process of reforming Polices by adding a series of new powers or changes to the Poluses Act 2010. 2) After taking over the Poluses Act from Victoria Police in November 2012, a draft Polices Act was put together in July 2013 which has now been passed and published.1st amendment to section 7 of the Poluses Act 2010 introduced to: 3) enable the police to monitor the behaviour of those who have taken part in activity relating to a crime.
4) make enforcement work that is at odds with the core values of the community and the work that the police needs to do to ensure the public safe work is carried out.
5) ensure an increase in community awareness on the subject as well as a greater awareness of the police efforts to address concerns about public safety. 6) increase the ability of officers to carry out community complaints on an individual basis and make that process faster.
7) strengthen police efforts to ensure that they engage in community outreach. 8) ensure that any policing training they receive in relation to those areas is subject to the standards set by NSW Police.2) As an example, in April 2012 the police of South Melbourne were required to submit to a Review of New Polio Training (ROS) course in Australia which was offered by the Queensland Police and Education Directorate. The NSW Constabulary had been asked not to take part in ROS. One problem was that a major part of what was being taught was from police in Australia, while police were being given instructions on how to use community services in Queensland, it would be impossible to recruit them to fill the roles by themselves. 7) In contrast the Queensland Police Service was given the sole focus of teaching the ROS programme to their current recruits in Queensland, whilst also training officers for ROS in other states. 8) In an environment in which resources were being diverted in recent years to funding and training for high profile law enforcement agencies the Police Service was left to go out of its way and train its officers based on the new methods and concepts being discussed within police training. The NSW Constabulary is now preparing recruits for an extremely new police environment and the officers with the training are more likely to be effective criminals, they will be better equipped to deal with public safety issues. 9) Despite this fact the RGS course will not replace any existing training programmes. In fact it is now considered a no-brainer for some police departments to have this new training. However, the RGS course was still taught for two years by the local Police Chief in Victoria. This was to ensure that officers working in areas with
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1) In May 2011 the NSW Assembly of NSW took over the process of reforming Polices by adding a series of new powers or changes to the Poluses Act 2010. 2) After taking over the Poluses Act from Victoria Police in November 2012, a draft Polices Act was put together in July 2013 which has now been passed and published.1st amendment to section 7 of the Poluses Act 2010 introduced to: 3) enable the police to monitor the behaviour of those who have taken part in activity relating to a crime.
4) make enforcement work that is at odds with the core values of the community and the work that the police needs to do to ensure the public safe work is carried out.
5) ensure an increase in community awareness on the subject as well as a greater awareness of the police efforts to address concerns about public safety. 6) increase the ability of officers to carry out community complaints on an individual basis and make that process faster.
7) strengthen police efforts to ensure that they engage in community outreach. 8) ensure that any policing training they receive in relation to those areas is subject to the standards set by NSW Police.2) As an example, in April 2012 the police of South Melbourne were required to submit to a Review of New Polio Training (ROS) course in Australia which was offered by the Queensland Police and Education Directorate. The NSW Constabulary had been asked not to take part in ROS. One problem was that a major part of what was being taught was from police in Australia, while police were being given instructions on how to use community services in Queensland, it would be impossible to recruit them to fill the roles by themselves. 7) In contrast the Queensland Police Service was given the sole focus of teaching the ROS programme to their current recruits in Queensland, whilst also training officers for ROS in other states. 8) In an environment in which resources were being diverted in recent years to funding and training for high profile law enforcement agencies the Police Service was left to go out of its way and train its officers based on the new methods and concepts being discussed within police training. The NSW Constabulary is now preparing recruits for an extremely new police environment and the officers with the training are more likely to be effective criminals, they will be better equipped to deal with public safety issues. 9) Despite this fact the RGS course will not replace any existing training programmes. In fact it is now considered a no-brainer for some police departments to have this new training. However, the RGS course was still taught for two years by the local Police Chief in Victoria. This was to ensure that officers working in areas with
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1) In May 2011 the NSW Assembly of NSW took over the process of reforming Polices by adding a series of new powers or changes to the Poluses Act 2010. 2) After taking over the Poluses Act from Victoria Police in November 2012, a draft Polices Act was put together in July 2013 which has now been passed and published.1st amendment to section 7 of the Poluses Act 2010 introduced to: 3) enable the police to monitor the behaviour of those who have taken part in activity relating to a crime.
4) make enforcement work that is at odds with the core values of the community and the work that the police needs to do to ensure the public safe work is carried out.
5) ensure an increase in community awareness on the subject as well as a greater awareness of the police efforts to address concerns about public safety. 6) increase the ability of officers to carry out community complaints on an individual basis and make that process faster.
7) strengthen police efforts to ensure that they engage in community outreach. 8) ensure that any policing training they receive in relation to those areas is subject to the standards set by NSW Police.2) As an example, in April 2012 the police of South Melbourne were required to submit to a Review of New Polio Training (ROS) course in Australia which was offered by the Queensland Police and Education Directorate. The NSW Constabulary had been asked not to take part in ROS. One problem was that a major part of what was being taught was from police in Australia, while police were being given instructions on how to use community services in Queensland, it would be impossible to recruit them to fill the roles by themselves. 7) In contrast the Queensland Police Service was given the sole focus of teaching the ROS programme to their current recruits in Queensland, whilst also training officers for ROS in other states. 8) In an environment in which resources were being diverted in recent years to funding and training for high profile law enforcement agencies the Police Service was left to go out of its way and train its officers based on the new methods and concepts being discussed within police training. The NSW Constabulary is now preparing recruits for an extremely new police environment and the officers with the training are more likely to be effective criminals, they will be better equipped to deal with public safety issues. 9) Despite this fact the RGS course will not replace any existing training programmes. In fact it is now considered a no-brainer for some police departments to have this new training. However, the RGS course was still taught for two years by the local Police Chief in Victoria. This was to ensure that officers working in areas with
The New York City Police Department like any other department in the world is constantly changing and adapting its policies to conform to that of new technologies and trends in law enforcement. One of these policies that has been put into use in recent years has been that of a community policing initiative. Finding its roots in police-community relations policies of the 50’s and 60’s, community policing is a philosophy that seeks to form a partnership between the police and the community. Through this bond the community can fully identify its needs and work together with the police to battle crime as well as many other services that do not fall within the traditional roles of policing. All of this is aimed at taking a proactive approach to crime. Its basis is simply trying to work with the community to identify its problems and fixing them before they escalate or lead to crime. Community policing is far different than any other philosophy seen in policing.
Although throughout history, “there have been sporadic variations in the underpinnings of American law enforcement, its substantively has remained a legal-bureaucratic organization focusing on professional law enforcement (Gaines and Kappeler, 2003 p. 476)”. This legal-bureaucratic set up of the American police department has it as an agency concerned with statistic and numbers. The outputs of policing that include number of arrests, volume of recovered property, number of citations issued, response times and the other stats of policing play a more important role than the end result of policing (Gaines and Kappeler, 2003). This view of law enforcement has led to the police filling a fully reactive role and not paying attention to the underlying problems that cause crime in an area. A more in depth view of community policing can show how it attempts to fulfill its proactive philosophy.
First, Community policing aims to broaden the function of the police. According to Gaines and Kappeler (2003), the police must move away from their traditional role as crime fighters. They should incorporate a much broader role that uses fear reduction and order maintenance. Gaines and Kappeler (2003) identify prior research that has shown that crime as a product of social conditions. These social conditions can be manipulated and changed by the quality of life and social conditions in an area. So in affect, the police cannot actually fight crime, they can really only fight the conditions that cause crime by maintaining order, and therefore “bettering” the social conditions in a community. As for the concept of fear reduction, Gaines and Kappeler (2003) point out the fact that fear has a far worse effect on a community than does a crime rate. The fear of crime causes people to stay in their homes, takes away commerce in an area, and causes psychological affects on people. Gaines and Kappeler further their finding here by identifying a little known fact-more often than not, people’s fear of crime is not related to the crime rate in their area. Many programs that promote fear reduction also lead to the second step of community policing, which is citizen input.
In the past, the police have implemented programs that have involved the citizens of their area. However, these programs did not truly take into account the citizens needs. The programs involved in the police-community relations push of the 50’s and 60’s although paying attention to the community and its wants and needs, did not really fulfill them (Gaines and Kappeler, 2003). Community policing furthers the community’s involvement in policing where these predecessors fell short. Departments involved in community policing programs use surveys, meeting and others tactics in order for the citizens to voice their cares and concerns (Gaines and Kappeler, 2003). This data that is taken can then be used to evaluate the publics perception of many facets of police work, including efficiency of programs and the publics perceived fear of crime. The goals and priorities of a department can then be molded and shaped according
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