According to Cole and Gertz (2013), community oriented police focuses on maintaining order in local neighborhoods (p.103). Their presence helps ease problems within the community such as domestic violence, rowdy teenagers, and drug houses. But the role of community police is changing as they face new challenges such as immigration, protest movements, and terrorism (Cole & Gertz, 2013). The 9/11 attacks added a dimension to policing that expanded their role beyond maintaining order. They have new
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Police Department Roles and Functions CJA/214 Police Department Roles and Functions Within any organization, it is important for the chief to delegate roles and functions to each department as applicable. As a result of effective administration, the departments come together to achieve a particular goal. An analogy of this method would be that of the mechanisms of a clock which has plenty of unique working parts that, when put together, will tell the
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Police Chiefs Desk Reference 14 Recruitment & Retention of Qualified Police Personnel A Best Practices Guide 14. Recruitment & Retention Best Practices Guide International Association of Chiefs of Police Services, Support and Technical Assitance for Smaller Police Departments Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Police Personnel by Chief Jack McKeever & Lt. April Kranda (Ret.) This project supported by a grant from: BJ A Bureau of Justice Assistance Office of Justice Programs U.S. Department
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the law. Police officers are also responsible for displaying professional behavior and a professional demeanor when dealing with members of the public as well as establishing relationships of trust through their behavior. When police officers apply to much force or select criminal suspects based on their race or ethnic group their behavior can have negative consequences on the relationship established with the policing agency and members of the community. The behavior of the police ties are
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Metropolitan Police Department Heloise V. Posey BUS310014VA016-1118-001 Date: October 29, 2011 Abstract The Washington Metropolitan Police Department is one of the largest local police agencies in the United States. The Metropolitan Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia. The main focus of this paper will be on the issues surrounding human resources and other areas of the Metropolitan Police Department. The Chief of Police serves as the Chief
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Police History CJA/214 Policing has been around for many years. Policing was known to exist prior to 1066, since then there have been many changes to policing styles. Throughout this paper I will be discussing police history by describing the impact Sir Robert Peel had on the way police operate and also by looking at the relationship between the United States government and the policing organizations throughout the United
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head: POLICE OFFICER II: ON THE JOB POLICE OFFICERS II: ON THE JOB Sigfredo A. Collazo Excelsior College Abstract Police officers are people the society should always be seen as the epitomes of discipline and guardian of law and order; however police behavior in recent years has been nothing but exemplary thus rising to extreme bitterness and disbelieve in the community. The community no longer trusts or respects police officers levying all sorts of charges against them. Police officers
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James Q. Wilson, an American criminologist, identified the primary functions of police departments as law enforcement, order maintenance, and service delivery (Liederbach & Travis, III, 2008). In 1968, he observed patterns of discretionary behavior in eight police departments (Police: Organization and Management - Variation in Style and Structure, 2011). From these observations he concluded that police organizations, depending on their approach to these functions, could be categorized into three
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Organizational Effectiveness in Criminal Justice Organizations All organizations have specific ethics, values, and goals that it uses to drive them in a forward direction that those within the organization need to know and understand. The Criminal justice system is not any different and has many moving parts that at times can make it difficult to have a clear picture of the overall effectiveness of the organization is truly operating. In order to make this picture clearer we will look at three
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justice system can take to affect change for the future. The Chief In the police department the top position is the chief of police, and he or she must be ready to face scrutiny that comes their way. The chief will face new and old challenges and any problem that arise within the department. The responsibilities he or she has when in this position are ensuring the public and the department on safety, manage the department of police and public citizens who works for the department. Communication skills
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