Police Policies and Procedures on Streets and Correctional Institutions

Abstract

Police Force has always been a light of justice for the society. However, their job requires the police men and women to act accordingly keeping in mind the expected response of the criminal. The following research paper will be directed towards studying of different police policies and the difference in their behaviors while being on the street and with the convicted prisoners in the correctional facilities. In order to understand the topic in detail, authenticated and trustworthy resources such as articles and journal entries would be used. The outcome of this study would in understanding the reason for different police behaviors and the outcomes achieved through those different behavioral practices.Police Policies and Procedures on Streets and Correctional Institutions

Introduction

The term police refers to a service community operating within a sub region, region or a nation to work for the stoppage of criminal activities, and to cause a decrease in the probable rate of crimes (Greene, 2000). Therefore, police force can be highlighted as a public service community that works for the people, and ensures that they are safe and sound from harmful criminals. However, different criminals require different forms of treatments dependent upon their crime, and the environment that they are operating in. In order to understand the different police policies designed to cater to these different segments of criminals, an in depth study of the related factors is required.

Discussion

Different Police Personalities

Police behaviors differ in accordance to the environment they are working in. On the street, with general public consisting of innocent pedestrians, they are required to follow different rules and policies; whereas, in a confined and controlled correctional facility, they have a very different behavior.

The reason for this change in behavior is that a prison environment if full of convicts, who have already been tried and found guilty. This mere fact makes the police men and women an entirely different person for the criminals in jail and on road.

Police Policies

Every Organization operates on a set of policies, which are designed to keep the organizational departments intact and to ensure that the organization's overall efforts are directed towards the achievement of the ultimate organizational goal. Similarly, the police force is also an active organization; and has its own set of policies and rules, to ensure that everybody is working in accordance with the moral and ethical requirements of the department.

Street Crime Policies

Police policies can be differentiated into multiple domains dependent upon the diversified exposure of their purpose. Street crimes are the most common in any nation, because these require minimum planning efforts and resources from the criminal's side.

Block and Block (1993) define street crime as those crimes which take place outside one's residence or in an open unprotected area. Examples of such crimes include snatching, trespassing, kidnapping and drug selling etcetera.

The nature of these crimes make the respondent automatically violent, and therefore, puts the life of the officers at risk if they try to make a peaceful move. Madison Police Department (2012) has highlighted ...