Police Use of Force

Abstract

Police is the only public body which is authorized, in exceptional circumstances, to require coercion of citizens a certain behavior, through the immediate implementation, if necessary, a wide range of force extending from the mere presence. Awareness of police abuse has enabled stakeholders to take corrective action. Sanctions are beginning to be taken against police perpetrators. Sometimes fulfilling those duties is the need of use of force by members of the police forces. the police use of force can be invoked a basis law, what is the coercive force of law (general prevention), while the police is the administrative enforcement, even compulsively regulations. Regulations on the use of force are contained in the legal international and domestic on this matter, but in addition there are other rules also informally refer to it. The Discipline Code establishes four types of disciplinary sanctions: warning, reprimand, suspension, and blame. It is essential that the police have lethal and non-lethal weapons; in terms you can have the tools to choose less lethal alternatives the use of force. The distinction between use and abuse of force may become problematic. On the one hand must distinguish between extensive abuse (when force is applied to situations outside the cases authorized by the standard) and intensive abuse (when giving the factual authorized it violates the rule of proportionality or progression in use). The application of direct punishment by the police can be modulated by perceptions that take on the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. The idea is that the best professional standards are the yardstick on excessive force to handle a situation. In other cases, it includes speaking of reasonable or unreasonable force.

One can also consider that the use of the police force is excessive, or illegal, from the result of a complaint or lawsuit for police abuse. Finally you can ask the opinion citizens themselves involved in encounters with use of force by the police. The importance of this point of view is that if citizens feel as excessive the use of force, this will result in the deterioration of relations beyond that under another look using force may have been considered necessary or reasonable. The use of physical force or firearms by the police cannot have another purpose than to make enforce the law, protect public order and / or protect legal interests of members' community and in no case to violate human rights.

Police Use of Force: Determining Proper Use and Abuse

Introduction

The police can be defined in terms of the way through which could achieve their purposes, suggesting that it should be understood as a mechanism for the distribution of situational justified force in society. In a democratic constitutional state police is the only public body which is authorized, in exceptional circumstances, to require coercion of citizens a certain behavior, through the immediate implementation, if necessary, a wide range of force extending from the mere presence, with the psychological pressure that it implies-up physical force itself, in its various degrees, whose top ...