Instructional Objectives for this activity:
Compare the concepts of leadership, professionalism and synergy. |
Police officers interact with the community on a daily basis and must develop methods to attempt to satisfy the citizens they are charged to protect and not provoke citizens into lawsuits against the department. How do officers decrease the chances of being held in liability cases? Can this be accomplished by training? Explain. If not, what are your recommendations?
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You have made it to the end! The class will wind down with consideration of police officer image and professionalism on the job. We will also discuss concepts of leadership and emerging strategies for police officers in multicultural societies.
As times change, law enforcement officers must also change in the way they think and how they police our neighborhoods. We will conclude with officer liability issues and advanced innovations in technology as they pertain to diversity.
Read Chapter 15, "Emerging Strategies, Roles, and Technology for Peace Officers in Multicultural Law Enforcement,” pages 462-490.
Introduction:
To increase cultural awareness, refers are provided with a simple model for a quick analysis of differences in various cultures, ethnic groups, and generations. The role of peace officers has increased in functions to encompass assistance to and communication with multicultural communities in disasters, terrorism, and controlling possible community confrontations resulting from global/ regional events.
Curtailing possible community confrontations resulting from global/ regional events. Leaders and officers, requiring changes in police policies, training, and practices. Training and preparation of future law enforcement personnel will require changes in the curriculum of the police academies, as well as the ongoing and continuing education of law enforcement officers.
PERPAPS the greatest challenge facing law enforcement officers and leaders is to develop law enforcement organizations and services that can1. Effectively recognize, relate to, and operate within the multicultural communities and the global shifts in culture, 2. Utilize technological advances, and 3. Adapt to community/ governmental expectations. As highlighted by the first leadership conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP):
Peace officer Image:
Within this wide spectrum of peace officers, the image is strengthened by their being sworn to uphold the law, their adherence to standards and training, their badge and weapon, and sometimes their uniforms and insignia. But the true significance of the words peace officer is yet to be fully realized by most of who operate under the umbrella term.
Police Leadership in Professionalism and Synergy:
Lack of professionalism and inadequate personnel development can very costly to any organization. But when it occurs within the public sector, it can prove damaging to both individuals and their careers, as well as to agencies and society. The following subsections cover three key concepts, which will be defined especially because of their implications for law enforcement and peacekeeping within a multicultural society.
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Police Ethics:
As concepts, ethics is closely associated with professionalism. Codes of ethics are vital to guide the behavior of practitioners of the learned professions law or medicine and to punish those who do not adhere to the agreed, enunciated conduct of behavior for those vocations. For peace officers, such codes promote self-regulation and discipline within a law enforcement agency. Often these codes are written and summarized within an agency mission statement.
In those best sense, professionalism having more than technical skills and refers to the moral contributions that professionals make in a complex, democratic society the ethic of the calling. The ethics person is perceived as someone who has courage and integrity, and is willing to resist corruption and unprincipled people by upholding humanity, justice, and civility. Such a peace officer tries to be loyal to his or her own conscience and avoids unprofessional behavior use of excessive force, succumbing to the blue code of silence during investigations, biased policing or expressions of bias and bigotry, or acceptance of bribery.
Police and diverse community groups:
Any new group integrating into the United States will present new law enforcement challenges that require changes in police tactics and behavior. For law enforcement organizations, human resource development (HRD) starts with recruitment and selection of qualified candidates. Apart from meeting basic qualifications, future peace officers must have a stable personality, be willing to receive further education and training be career oriented, and, in some cases, be representative of the multicultural communities in which they serve. In previous chapters, we have reviewed these challenges.
Reference
Shusta, R. M. Levine, D.R., (2010.
Multicultural law enforcement: Strategies for peacekeeping in a diverse society. 5th
edition.
New Jersey: Pearson.