... in composite drawings now and DNA has revolutionized criminal identification. Field interrogation is another key responsibility in patrol. Knowledge requires the changes in laws and court decisions, and the proper techniques that should be used. Officers must be able to sense true reactions to a question. Officers must also be able to use discretion in selecting subjects and asking questions. A major case ... routes or areas where the least number of people can be injured or taken as hostages. Interrogators must also be familiar with criminal traits, especially lingo, tattoo's and cloth...

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... is four types of behavior in the police department: service, detection, the use of force, use of arrest, and citations (Sherman, 1980). A detection activity includes traffic stops, investigative techniques, and field interrogation. Service activities is assisting citizens, mediating disputes, community policing activities, and engaging in problem solving. The action of police arrest and citation is also look at as ... course of action. Police training does not cover every situation police officers may encounter. Good judgment plays an important role because every crime is different (Bran...

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... his/her family. In order not to alarm their family, officers sometimes avoid commenting on dangerous assignments or situations they were involved in. Although the officer has good intentions, this puts a barrier in communication with each other and wonder in the minds of each concerned family member about how safe the officer really is. " Not knowing whether the officers will ... The problem with this reaction is that the officers cannot chose to suppress only the harmful sections, the caring side of their emotions are also shut down. This lack of communication and emotion can put a stra...

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... . The proper level of stress can benefit people in daily living. Well, what is bad stress and what is good stress? Good stress is stress that you can manage. The stress of competing in athletic contests often works in your favor by ... of its officers and often creates stress unwittingly. Orders and regulations tend to sound oppressive in their pronouncements when they don't need to. Poor communication causes chiefs and officers as much grief as anything. In short, the organization needs to remove its own problems before pointing at individual officers ... enough. Well, we know that str...

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... flexibility in problem solving that is critical to the success of the police departments. Community policing is effective, proactive, it has good quality, and it is a great problem-solving method where as traditional policing is efficient, reactive, it has good quantity in arrests, and it's incident-driven. Traditional policing is a great way to get criminals off the street and it ... citizens happy. Community policing is a way to stop crime before it starts and it also keep good relations with the people in the community. In community policing, Police Officers are encouraged to listen ...

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... in order to defend the victim. Also, violence portrayed on television is somewhat of a major concern. What is being presented to the viewers is that people who fight for the good are allowed to use violence to save the day; therefore acts of aggression or violence will be justified if one's cause is seen as "just". Television producers need ... race relations, handling the mentally ill, etc. and supervised field training. It should also include training in violence reduction techniques and In addition to being given weapons and firearms and taught just how to use them, police recruits...

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... chair of the Colorado Probation Safety Advisory Committee -- best estimates indicate that nearly 80 percent of all probation staff members in Colorado have completed some safety training (P. Gervais-Voss, personal communication, January 9, 1997). Dispelling the Myths about Officers and Weapons As previously mentioned, many arguments are made against arming probation officers. One controversy is the question of liability if the ... of emotion, very little empirical data are available to prove the worthiness of either of these assumptions. The public assumes and expects that most probatio...

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