Drug Enforcement Administration

Security Cameras: Prevent Crimes or Invade Privacy Closed Circuit Television Cameras or also known as CCTVs are a big help in both public and private communities here in the Philippines or even in the other countries because it records all the happenings and all the crimes and other things around you and it’s a big help. Preventing crimes is one of the main objectives or goals of CCTVs or Closed Circuit Television Cameras around the world. And one of the ways to prevent crime is to install…

1.The principles of Sir Robert Peel are as follows: the basic mission of the police is to prevent crime and disorder. (Whitelaw, Griffiths, Parent, Griffiths, 2006, p. 8) The principle is still relevant in modern day style policing by having as many prevention strategies to reduce crime as possible just not all laying charges. There have been many efforts made to reduce crime and disorder through many tested and approved methods like Environmental design. The ability of police to perform their…

under new scrutiny and changing the way that claims against officers are played out in court. Police have responded by trying to limit such recordings when they feel that they interfere with police actions. The fear that is most present in law enforcement is that these videos will cause officers to change how they behave in a life or death situation. To combat this, officers are now receiving training to deal with being recorded. The only upside to these videos, according to Johnson, is that…

Ethics Inside Law Enforcement Agencies There has been conflict with agencies and communities when it comes to ethics of their officers. Utilitarianism and deontology have shown to impact the law enforcement tremendously. When it comes to the decision-making process, Conway and Gawronski have conducted several studies to determine inclinations of morals in human beings (Conway & Gawronski, 2013). Psychology is an important part of the ethics thinking of individuals. Not everyone is made to think…

Rooted in foundational works of the 1960s and 1970s is the idea of a ‘special character’ that often dictates police behavior referred to as the ‘blue curtain’ or the ‘blue wall of silence’, early police scholars refer to a protective and united ‘brotherhood’, which is mainly attributed to the isolating and threatening nature of the work, as well as the constant pressure to be productive in what are often uncertain circumstances. Distilled over time to the concept of ‘police culture’, this…

Internal mechanisms for ensuring accountability, means that codes of conduct and disciplinary measures are to be decided within the force. The individual police officers are a direct link to the public, as they interact with them on a daily basis. This is the main reason for the need of accountability, to ensure the police respond effectively and correctly to any situation. The system internally is set up in the following way, the individual police officer is responsible and accountable to the…

Police men and women are faced everyday with multiple impediments in attempting to provide safety to individuals within the community. Within reading the text, I find that the two operations to be of most importance preformed by police is order maintenance & Services. Order Maintenance → “The police of preventing behavior that disturbs or threaten to disturb the public peace or that involves face-to-face conflict among two or more people. In such situations, the police exercise discretion in…

Police Departments are always evolving. trying to better themselves police departments are implementing strategies and tactics. Throughout the past decades, policing strategies have been slowly shifting from one to another. Traditional ,problem-oriented, community oriented and order maintenance policing all are influenced by the previous in some shape or form. Problem-Oriented Policing(POP) is the strategy in which police discovers the problems and responds to it. Herman Goldstein is known as…

With the passing of this bill the authorization of funds, an aid to support community policing effort throughout the United States (Lawrence, s 2013). To this day community policing remains the most important local law enforcement. In order for the community policing to continue to be successfully I think the police departments staff need to continue training programs at every level (Lawrence, S & McCathy, B 2013. References Retrieved from Hoover, L (2014) Police crime Control…

badge, my integrity, my character, or the public trust” (IACP). This quote is a segment of the “Law Enforcement Oath of Honor” that is required of any police officer at the conclusion of his or her training. Police officers are allowed to start enforcing the law after only 19 weeks to 6 months of training. During this short amount of training how can all officers be expected to uphold the Law Enforcement Oath of Honor? During training cadets are required to take multiple in-class courses before…