History
What are four police functions/activities?
What are Patrol, SWAT, Narcotics, and Investigations.
Fairness or Equal Treatment.
What is Justice.
What comes first, Morality or Laws?
What is Morality.
Who gets to decide whether or not to enforce a law?
Who are the police.
First set of codified/written laws.
What is The Code of Hammurabi.
Year of the Assyrian Empire court system.
What is 1200 B.C.
Greek word for Police.
What is Polis.
Enforced The Code of Hammurabi.
Who are Messengers.
Government tax collector utilized in the rural parts of England.
What is a Tithingman.
Instituted in England. The law was enforced by citizens/community.
What is the Watch and Ward System.
Who is Judge Henry Fielding.
Year the Persian Empire had police protect roads and the postal system.
What is 400 B.C.
Why are laws such as Polygamy, Jay Walking, Curfew, Some Traffic Laws, Speeding, Improper turns, Vehicle condition, & Truancy, not widely enforced?
Widespread violation
Limited manpower
Low priorities
Significant change in the direction of law enforcement in England (1215).
What is The Magna Carta.
English Police Officers are still nicknamed this.
What are Bobbies.
First English attempt at Systematic Police.
What is the Statute of Winchester.
The man who created the Metropolitan Police when he served as Home Secretary of England. According to him, the real key for policing is "the police are the people and the people are the police". He believed that prevention of crime could be accomplished without intruding into the lives of citizens. With the development of the Metropolitan Police, he established nine principles to his theory of policing.
Who is Sir Robert Peel.
After the collapse of the Roman Empire...
What is The dark ages left Europe in a state of lawlessness. The only law was the sword.
What are the following:
1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
2. To recognize always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect. 3. To recognize always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws. 4. To recognize always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives. 5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion; but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour; and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life. 6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective. 7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. 8. To recognize always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty. 9. To recognize always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
What are Sir Robert Peels nine principles of policing.
Three components of the word Sheriff.
"Shires" = Counties
"Reeve" = Chief law enforcement officer
"Shire-Reeve" = Eventually evolved into Sheriff.