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Examples Of Police Observation

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For my observation I observed on a ride along with the Independence Police Department. The city of Independence, Missouri has a population of approximately 117,000 people. The Police Department employs 207 officers. The department is divided into five parts including the administrative division, investigations division, patrol division, special operations division, and support services division. The administrative division has a fiscal management unit which is responsible for the overall financial activities for the Police Department. In this division they are also in charge of the training unit which ensures all personnel in the department maintain the highest levels of training. This division also reviews new applicants for positions in the Police Department which is the professional standards unit. The investigations division has four subunits: criminal investigations, drug enforcement, crime scene, and career criminal. The patrol unit are the men and women who are the first responders to citizens’ calls for police action. Patrol officers work 12-hour shifts. This is the unit that I observed during my ride along. The special operations unit has subunits of focus: traffic safety, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), Hawthorne Place patrol, Independence Center subdivision, …show more content…

The officer I rode with talked briefly about the community’s rising hate for police which has also been a headline recently. I am aware that there are bad police officers but I saw justice being served in the correct order during my ride along. The officers have to respond to obscure calls and I witnessed the officers doing their best to serve the people in the right fashion. The officer I rode with used discretion in a moderate and correct fashion as well as taking the individuals to jail who needed to be detained. Based on my observation during the ride along, justice is being served through the police

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