Police Department Roles and Functions CJA/214 September 20‚ 2012 Scott Mann Roles and Functions The Police Department must serve many roles and purposes so they also must take care of any issues that arise‚ dealing with the law or public safety. For this reason they have different specialized concentrations of officers designed to carry out certain functions. This also varies according to jurisdiction where there are state‚ local and even federal jurisdictions. This also affects what are
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Discrimination Against Women In The Police Department Often when a person thinks of discrimination‚ they think of discrimination against different races‚ however‚ there are different types of discrimination that exists in our society‚ regardless of skin color‚ wealth or social status. There are different types of discrimination such as‚ race‚ religion‚ sexual orientation‚ height‚ weight and more (Dempsey pg. 197). There are no limits where discrimination takes place and unfortunately it can take
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The chain of command in a Police Department consists of many different titles. The titles within a department are needed to make up a department and agencies. From the top of the command to the bottom all are needed to make up of a functional organization. First and most important is the Chief-Superintendent this set off the chain of command. The Chief represent the police department He/she also implements‚ goals‚ objectives‚ polices for the department. He/she will have to attend meetings
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enforcement agencies at no cost (GovTrack‚ 1996). The equipment is stated as being surplus‚ moreover‚ several notations are made on the Defense Logistics Agency’s website advising the equipment was not purchased for the sole purposes of providing it to law enforcement (n.d.). The equipment that has been deemed surplus range from first aid kits to helicopters‚ each being made available to law enforcement agencies that wish to apply for them. The program has been utilized by over 8‚000 departments‚ receiving
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Police Department Organization Paper University of Phoenix CJA/214 February 15‚ 2011 The organizational structure of most American police departments is a bureaucracy with an authoritarian management style; the only exception is smaller departments which have a more informal management style and simple organizational structure (Katz and Walker‚ 2008). Most departments have a civil service system to govern personal policies‚ except for the smallest agencies. The majority of larger departments
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Community policing is a tool that allows police forces to be in close contact with the community. The purpose for this is to control and reduce crime in an area and to also establish a close relationship between the law and the common person. However due to the large amount of people who are victims of profiling each year‚ tensions are rapidly growing between the police officers and the communities that they serve. Even though the exact number of people who experience this is unknown‚ it is a big
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Rapids Community College‚ one of the oldest community college in Michigan‚ built in 1914‚ who has the best safety environment for all students and employee. The GRCC Campus Police Department provide safety and have full law enforcement authority and responsibility‚ including the authority to arrest individuals who commit crimes on campus. Campus Police Department also have a total of sixteen officers‚ three police cars‚ police bicycles‚ and is not open twenty-four hours. GRCC Campus Police Department
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Abstract The City of Columbus Mississippi recognizes the need for a new analytical unit. This is a proposal that aims to develop this new analytical unit in an effort to support all levels of the Police Department‚ to include command personnel‚ supervisors‚ detectives‚ and patrol officers. law enforcement agencies in. This analytical unit will obtain and analyze as much information as possible in order to identify crime patterns‚ trends‚ offenders‚ and develop correlations‚ to improve short-term and long-term
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March 11‚ 2011 Unit 6 Community Policing Project This is indeed one of the last projects for this term. I have had an awesome time in this class and I have learned a lot with the different projects that we have been asked to do. As I begin this project I will try to describe a few different things and hope that you learn as much as I do as you read this project about Community Oriented Policing and Problem Oriented Policing. These are the two different types of policing that I will be describing
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In modern American policing‚ police-community relations are essential for effective policing‚ however; in many cities‚ the relationship between the police and the community is strained and even volatile. The term police-community relations refers to the relationship between the community and the police‚ it “consists of both human and public relations” (Cox 279). For the police to have a productive role in society‚ the police must receive a level of reciprocity from the community to strive for better
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