Sir Robert Peel's Nine Principles Of Policing Summary

Many guidelines for American ways came from England and Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Policing is the “Magna Carta” to our Police code of ethics. The United States is a fairly new country that developed large cities with huge populations like New York. The outstanding population of New York and other big cities made them dangerous because they became a common ground for crime. There was too many people with no solid form of accountability. Therefore, a police force was formed in these cities, supporting Peel’s first principle that the police’s “basic mission is to prevent crime and disorder.” Which is what these cities desperately needed. “For the people,” words taken seriously due to the fear of a selfish government, makes it a no …show more content…
Chapter two talks about citizen support. Even though, there exist the obvious factor that some people do not support the police, two-thirds of Americans view law enforcement favorably. That statistic shows that Peel’s third principle,that police must “secure and maintain the respect of the public,” is being currently being carried out. Principles 4, 5, and 6 emphasize of the fact that there will be people who do not corporate and because police are to “demonstrate absolute impartial service to the law,” physical force is justified when all other reasoning fails to “secure observance of the law and secure order.” This is still how police officers in America are expected to act. Principle 7 is my favorite because its states the “the police are the public and the public are the police.” The police in the U.S are also members of society and just like society should, they have the interest of the welfare and existence of their community in mind. The only difference is that the police are paid to work these duties full-time. Principle 8, simply put, says that the police cannot abuse their