She also found that the Police Community Support Officers helped contribute to the police by reducing juvenile anti-social behaviour and environmental disorder. As well as the Police Community Support Officers working to support the police, they were also found to have contributed to other agencies who were concerned with managing local conditions such as housing providers, environmental services, wardens and also anti-social behaviour teams. The introduction of the Police Community Support Officers did confirm some of the findings of the Foot Patrol Experiment, which was conducted 25 years earlier. This experiment did show that even though the foot patrol didn’t reduce the amount of crime on the streets, it did reduce the public’s fear of crime. Because of this the public saw their communities as safer and better places to live.
Police officers are taken for granted and people rarely think of the personal, mental, and physical sacrifices that police make in order to protect our community. Police officers are more or less nameless and faceless people separated from the rest of society. They are the enforcers of the laws our society deems as appropriate behavior, even if it contradicts what an individual officer believes. If it's hard for some to see that police endure great amounts of stress, think about the fact that police have to deal with getting hurt or killed, being held liable, having alternating shifts, having less free time, and never escaping the police mentality; all are reasons that police officers face impossible stress and pressure over their career. Problems also come to police officers from other directions that cause even higher levels of stress: family, public, department, internally, and environmentally.
As time went on and the natives became more settled and peace was more successful, policing became one of the primary duties of the Justices of the Peace. As evolution took hold of the colonies, they became cities and towns making it necessary to create a more organized form of law enforcement. Then “The Night Watch was born, in 1636 as a productive way to control the actions and criminal activities of the area in Boston. New York later took on the same idea creating the Shout and Rattle Watch in 1651(Schmallager, 2009). Through the success in some areas of these teams and the weaknesses in other areas, Philadelphia felt that policing could be more productive if the area was divided and assigned small teams per area.
Community Policing Assignment “Community policing can mean different things to different people. Throughout the world, there is a range of different models and structures in existence. Essentially however, Community Policing is best defined not in terms of a single structure but as a philosophy. “ (Connolly J ( 2004 )p.13 ) When exploring Community Policing it is a very good starting point to explore the concept as a philosophy rather than a single aspect of any one role of An Garda Siochana. There is a substantial difference between what the police are “a body of people patrolling public places in blue uniforms, with a broad mandate of crime control, order maintenance and some negotiable social service functions” (Reiner, 1985).
Police and Gratuities One of the biggest questions asked and talked about among police officers and police higher ranking is “Are police officers entitled to gratuities?” Many police stations have a no tolerance policy towards accepting gratuities, but other police stations don’t. According to Webster’s dictionary, gratuities are defined as “Money given in return for some service or favor, in particular.” (Merriam, Webster) The definition uses the term “money,” it is illegal for a police officer to accept money and is grounds for being terminated. It isn’t the concern of police officers accepting actual money but money as in free coffee, free food, and/or discounted prices because they are a police officer. A concern with police accepting gratuities is the fact that does it affect their policing ethics or do they favor someone or someplace that gives them free food more than others? The issue of police officers accepting gratuities doesn’t only affect the police but it also affects restaurant owners and coffee shops.
Policing and the Impact on Today’s Society Danyale Dorsey CJA/214 April 4, 2013 Todd Hill Policing and the Impact on Today’s Society Brief History Policing in the early to mid-19th century was very different than in today’s society. Exploring the 19th century policing there was absolutely no training, no weapons, no way of communicate or call for back up. But crimes at that time were not as severe as they are now. As time progress so did the way of policing. In the 1950’s police officers were male (women were not allowed to patrol) the police officers may have had some high education and a brief stint in police academy or some equivalent training.
I will also discuss what and how citizens’ rights are taken advantage of by the police. Some measures necessary to protect ourselves from police taking advantage of their positions as law enforcement officers with greater permissive rights than private citizens. All citizens must take affirmative actions from physical brutality, rights violations, and information abuse. Police brutality is one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in Kenya and it occurs in every community. The job of a police officer is to maintain public order, prevent, and detect crime.
Law enforcement constitutes the part of the policing activity itself. Police are concerned with the preservation of order. The force that police use can be determined by a variety of factors. This includes but is not limited to: The police car; this provides policemen a source of transportation to get from one place to another in a short amount of time. Considering that most people drive, the police need to have the ability to drive their own vehicles to keep up with society.
However there is matter of environment and jurisdiction that gets in the way. A private property such as a parking lot or apartment complex can be limiting to police. Their authority in some circumstances is next to none, however if these facilities employ private police, their authority cannot be denied. Private police today are often given the many of the same duties as a public police officer. However, thanks to the fact that the private police do not work for the government,
Sir Robert Peel believed that crime prevention could be achieved without infringing on the lives of the public. A key concept that peel believed is the people are the police and the police are the people. Mr. Peel introduced twelve principals of his theory of policing, which are as important now as they were in the 1800s. Sir Robert Peel also changed the way the citizens viewed police by requiring them to wear uniforms, and badges with identification numbers on them to make the police easily to identify. Mr. Peel’s metropolitan police force was nick named the “bobbies” after him.