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Community policing

A contemporary approach to policing that actively involves the community in a working partnership to control and reduce crime

Getting the community involved

CompStat

A technological and management system that aims to make the police better organized and more effective crime fighters. It combines innovative crime analysis and geographic information systems, that is, crime mapping with the latest management principles.

Constable

The peacekeeper in charge of protection in early English towns

Constable-watch system

A system of protection in early England in which citizens, under the direction of a constable were required to guard the city and to pursue criminals.

Contract security

Protective services that a private security firm provides to people, agencies, and companies that don't employ their own security personnel or that need extra protection.

Highway patrol model

A model of state law enforcement services in which officers focus on highway traffic safety, enforcement of the state's traffic laws, and the investigation of accidents on the state's roads, highways and property.

Jurisdiction

The right or authority of a justice agency to act in regard to a particular subject matter, territory or person.

Aka a politically defined geographical area

Peel's Principles of Policing

A dozen standards proposed by Robert Peel, the author of the legislation resulting in the formation of the London Metropolitan Police Department. The standards are still applicable to today's law enforcement.

Robert Peel

Posses

Groups of able bodied citizens of a community, called into service by a sheriff or constable to chase and apprehend offenders.

Propriety security

In-house protective services that a security staff provides for the entity that employs it.

Shire Reeves

In medieval England, chief law enforcement officer in a territorial area called a shire; later called the sheriff.

Slave patrols

The earliest form of policing in the south. They were a product of the slave codes. The plantation slave patrols have been called "the first distinctively american police system."

State police model

A model of state law enforcement services in which the agency and its officers have the same law enforcement power as local police but can exercise them anywhere within the state.

Tithing system

A private self-help protection system in early medieval England, in which a group of 10 families, or a tithing, agreed to follow the law, keep the peace in their areas, and bring law violators to justice.

Henry Fielding

Known for the Bow Street Runners

"first paid police force" was created

NYC 1844

City and year

First State Police Agency

Texas Rangers founded 1835

August Vollmer

Attempted to create a professional model of policing by elimimating political influence, gain control of officers and establish crime fighting priorities.

Four main functions of local police

1. Law enforcement


2. Order maintenance or peacekeeping


3. Service


4. Information gathering

Four federal law enforcement agencies

1. U.S. Marshal's service


2. The secret service


3. FBI


4. DEA

Three models for providing law enforcement services at the state level

1. State police model


2. Highway patrol model


3. Department of public safety model (DSP)

Department of public safety (DSP)

Often complex organizations composed of several agencies or divisions

Elected position

Sherrif not chief