Distractions In Law Enforcement

There are many distractions that can occur when police officers are on duty. For instance, as we progress into modern time so does the technology that we use. As we change the way that police officers do their duties so does the technology continue to change the face of distractions in the field. However, with the change of technology comes the change of the perspective that what we do on the job. We constantly have cells phones that are attached to our hips or hands to communicate to others, we have the seen the trend with social media influences with the criminal justice system. We use these social media to either track where law enforcement personals will be, and to the extent post videos of local law enforcement officers detaining criminal
In the retro scope of this, if you are active police officer in the state of Virginia and work within the city limits there must be a page that is just for civilian use that does not correlate any information of the police department. As we come back to the question “How do law enforcement organizations regulate the use of social media?”. The Richmond Police Department uses social media outlets to keep the community informed, as well as letting the community be able to communicate with the police department. They do this by having appointed personnel for the police force to do mandatory checks to respond to those who leave comments. Those personnel are also required to remove any comments that do not address certain criteria that pertain to law enforcement questions or concerns about the community. There is a policy that indicated that only authorized personnel are able to access the use of the departments social media page. This does not come lightly, because those who do have access to the social media page must as well abide by those same policies that are indicated to other police officers of the department. As we have seen there are many uses for the police chief to use social media outlets, there are many advancements that comes along to
As stated before in this paper there is a time and a place to use social media, there should be no personal use of social media activity when a police officer is on duty, this does not regulate to off-duty police officers. The use of a personal account of social media should be done when the officer is out of all police uniforms, and or equipment that was issued to them. The Supreme Court has made many examples as to which is approaches are considered to be in violations of the personnel Constitutional Rights. This brings us to the next question “Should law enforcement organization regulate individual officers’ social media activity?”. In this particular question comes to many different factors that have to deal with the Constitutional Rights that we are given at birth or when we become U.S. Citizens. However, when it comes to these rights and our jobs it is known that when a person becomes government personnel, we allow the agreement between the employer and employee in contract that we will give some of our rights will have certain limitations when we become part of the company (International Association of Chiefs of Police National Law Enforcement Policy Center, International Association of Chiefs of Police, & Pan-American, 2010, p. 2). So in this case since law enforcement officers are government officials, they do have the right to regulate any individuals officer social media rights. This does not mean that they