Police Issues and Practices

Police Issues and Practices

Police Issues and Practices

Introduction

Policing reforms have sought to provide the police with greater public acceptance and political grounding. These reforms were created over time and came together in the 1990s under the umbrella of policing which is also known as “Problem Oriented Policing”. At that time, it had become clear that other 20th-century police efforts—the “wars” waged by the police on crime, drugs, and youth participation in violence—were not working as intended. The architect of modern community and problem-oriented policing suggested that the police often emphasized means over ends—that is, arrest over safety, or the number of calls for service responded to as opposed to the underlying problems that produced the need for those responses. This means-ends inversion resulted in the police and the public talking past one another, with the police concentrating on effort and the public on effect (Kenneth, 2006).

Moreover, the police acting alone rarely had sustainable results. That is to say, the police rarely touched the “root” problems of crime and social disorder, responding instead to “branch problems,” visible crime, and social disorder in public settings. Without attachments to other institutions of social control (e.g., the community, civic groups, other government agencies, and the like), the police were often relegated to the role of “picking up the pieces” after events had already occurred. Reactive policing was shaped more by the public's willingness to call the police than by police-derived interventions. And, when the police sought to become more “proactive” in their crime prevention and suppression activities, they invariably confronted a level of public resistance to what was perceived as “police overzealousness.”

The ideas shaped a generation of reform that emphasized a broader role for the police, and particularly the use of partnerships and problem solving. The idea of governing policing emerged from Goldstein's critique—it represented a sharp detour from conventional police crime-attack approaches, and it set the stage for decades of experimentation on police practices.

Good practices in basic police

Professional police force has the primary responsibility for maintaining order and security in public places and at public events. Based on the best practices of the OSCE region, the management of basic police training - aspects of the curriculum "describes the basic components of basic police training program, which can be used to analyze and improve national models basic police training (Ajomo and Isabella, 2001). Guidelines should be modular approach in which each training component is presented in the form of easy to understand blocks. Guide describes the purpose; objectives and issues addressed in each of the topics and, where appropriate, link to relevant sources. These references are not exhaustive, but rather concentrate on the key organizations or documents (Kenneth, 2006).

Management recognizes that the everyday decisions and actions of professional police officers are based on underlying values, common sense and a number of acquired skills and knowledge. The guide is divided into three sections. The first considers the values ??and ethics that lie at the heart of democratic ...