Police Support Functions I
According to the text, a great deal of police resources are devoted to these 2 areas...
What are Support and Administrative Functions
This type of technology helps officers quickly access information on wanted offenders.
What is modern data-management systems?
Some departments train officers for these, which are only required occasionally.
What are special assignments?
This is the police unit that investigates allegations of police misconduct.
What is internal affairs?
Most police departments are responsible for the administration and control of what?
This is where training usually begins for police officers.
What is the police academy?
These are unwritten cooperative agreements that may be made between localities to perform collectively a task that would be mutually beneficial to both.
What are Informal Arrangements?
This involves combining small departments in adjoining areas into a superagency that serves the previously fragmented jurisdictions'.
What is consolidation?
After assuming police duties, new recruits are assigned to this person...
What is a field training officer?
This type of board is common in police departments to review complaints against officers
What is a civilian review board?
This is when some police agencies combine the resources of two or more agencies to perform a specified function under a predetermined arrangement with direct involvement by all parties.
What is known as Pooling?
This is known as the amount of order maintenance, crime control and other law enforcement activities provided by individua police officers and by police departments as a whole.
What is Police Productivity?
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When speaking about how detectives "detect", to create their story, contemporary detectives typically use this type of approach...
What is a "three-pronged"?
The use of this type of employees in police departments can lead to significant cost savings, as their salaries are generally lower than those of regular police officers.
What is civilian?
Some police officers are trained to carry out other functions of municipal governments. This can be classified as...
What is multiple-tasking?
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The acronym COP stands for this
Community-Oriented Policing
What is the effective and efficient dispatching of patrol cars?
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This is an effective and efficient mechanism to exchange information and intelligence, maximize resources, streamline operations, and improve the ability to fight crime and terrorism by analyzing data from a variety of sources.
What is a Fusion Center?
Some programs such as consolidation, sharing, pooling, contracting, special assignments and differential police responses are this type of measures to improve police productivity
What is Cost-savings?
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This model states that the role of police officers are maintainers of community order and safety
What is the Broken Windows Model?