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| Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) |
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was often called the “Father of Modern Policing.”
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operates without official sanctions, but it influences the agency’s performance.
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| is a philosophy that promotes “organization strategies, which supports the systematic use of partnership and problem solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues, such as crime, social disorder and fear of crime”. |
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Supports those performing field services; includes recruitment and training, records and communications, planning and research and technical services.
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Problem solving requires police to group incidents as a way to identify underlying causes of problems in the community.
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Suggests that if it appears “no one cares,” disorder and crime will thrive.
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The order of authority; begins at the top of the pyramid and flows down to the base.
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Channels of Communication
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| The official paths through which orders flow from management to personnel who carry out the orders; usually follow the chain of command. |
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| Decentralized model of policing in which individual officers exercise their own initiatives and citizens become actively involved in making their neighborhoods safer; this proactive approach usually includes increased emphasis on foot patrol. |
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| – Encourages flattening of the organization and places decision-making authority and autonomy at the level where information is plentiful; in police organizations, this is usually at the level of the patrol officer. |
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A methodological approach that uses empirically derived evidence—what has been shown, through scientific research, to be effective—and applies it to real-world policing.
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Also called field services. Main division is the uniformed patrol. Are typically further broken into shifts to provide services within a framework of geographical space and extended time.
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| Directly help accomplish the goals of the department using line personnel; main division is uniformed patrol; also includes investigations, narcotics, vice, juvenile and the like. |
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| One with fewer lieutenants and captains, fewer staff assistants, more sergeants, and more patrol officers. |
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| A group of people organized or classified by rank and authority. In law enforcement, typically pyramid shaped with a single “authority” at the top expanding down and out through the ranks to the broad base of “workers.” |
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Those who actually perform most of the tasks outlined in the work plan.
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| – Management ascertains what problems exist and tries to solve them, redefining the role of law enforcement from incident to problem oriented and proactive. |
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| Means that every individual in the organization has only one immediate superior or supervisor. |
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| Various features of an organization may be altered, but the core framework is untouched; this evolutionary change intervenes in structure, management practices and motivations. |
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| Intervenes in an organization’s mission, culture and leadership style. |
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