Sir Robert Peel's Nine Principles

In the United States, there are city, county, state, and national police forces. They have very difficult and dangerous responsibilities. These public servants are required to perform many different jobs. They enforce laws and maintain order. They teach people how to help prevent crime and to protect themselves ( Mittleman, 2000). They offer assistance and take charge of many different situations such as car accidents, flooding, and hurricanes. Police

For over a century police departments in the United States and across the world have been following Sir Robert Peel's twelve principals of policing. Almost nothing or very little has changed since these principals were first implemented in England's "Scotland Yard". Many of these principals are behind today's investigating and policing practices.

2. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.

Robert Peel proposed twelve standards of policing. He took an aggressive military approach to policing that is still in effect today. All of the twelve principles policing are still in effect today and are working in police departments daily. Each of these principles is essential to the everyday life of a police officer and the community which they defend.

Community relation issues across the nation have been increasing and causing many conflicts between law enforcement and communities. There has been so much disorder between communities and law enforcements not agreeing on how situation have been handled. Both the community and law enforcements having different perspectives on making decisions without ever looking at the others side and acknowledging each other’s reasoning behind their actions. Racism, responsibility and morals are some of many terms that are yet to be sorted out within all these communities that have on going conflicts. The relationships between a community and its law enforcement is important, although it is the police job to enforce, it is also the communities job to enforce all day and everyday (Russell).

An ongoing question in today's society is,“How can the relationship of the police and communities

Police officers shall conduct themselves with integrity and moral values, whether on or off duty, in accordance with the Constitution of the United States.

Law enforcement (police) subcultures have specific set of moral values and a certain mentality exhibited by those in law enforcement. It’s always the public against the police so they form an alliance for supportive reasons. However, people may believe police subculture is breaking down. Police subculture is breaking down because it is inconsistent with the formal morals and values related to the culture and that police are not the same as each other in their qualities and attributes. Examining ethics and its relation to the police subculture is important to help delineate not only the grey area of ethics but also the grey area within which the police operate (McCartney and Parent, 2015). For example, police officers are known to defend their own whether its something right or wrong. However, if another officer feels that the situation interferes with their morals, then it becomes inconsistent with the other officer’s

A good appearance is believed receive great impressions from others. This will also help when it comes to earing and commanding respect from others as well. Principle eight states how law enforcements agencies should have proper training in order to provide the proper security for our community and neighborhoods. By having the proper training, security will become more efficient and the root to all good deeds and success. Standard nine means that every officer that helps protect and serve should have a badge number. This could be a good and a bad thing. When an officer on duty does an heroic thing, their name and badge number will be used and recognized for good purposes. In addition, when an officer on duty does something unlawful, or against someone rights; their name and badge number will be used to report unfair justice. Principe ten mentions how the police stations should be able to be accessed by anyone at anytime. It should be located where others can come to it to file and report. It should be located to where others will know how to reach their local police stations. This helps out a lot because it will be easy to find for anyone especially during an emergency. Standard eleven states how all policeman should be held with a certain amount of time to complete tasks, training, and goals. This normally would be a 90 day period or trial. All goals and task

2. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon the public approval of police actions.

Law enforcement leaders must be continually vigilant to ensure that the actions of their officers do not violate civil rights and do not compromise public support. The individual officer is granted a tremendous amount of authority and discretion to enforce the law. Their ultimate duty is to protect individual rights from being infringed upon by others in the community. They must never consider themselves above the law while executing their responsibility to enforce the law. This commitment is what distinguishes police in constitutionally based, democratic societies like ours from police in nondemocratic countries, where they are perceived as oppressive agents of a government whose main purpose is to restrict, rather than protect, the rights of civilians (International Association of Chiefs of Police, 2006).

For over a century police departments in the United States and across the world have been following Sir Robert Peel's twelve principals of policing. Almost nothing or very little has changed since these principals were first implemented in England's "Scotland Yard". Many of these principals are behind today's investigating and policing practices.

Since the founding of this country, to the wild west, and up to the present, the agenda of the policing bodies have been clear: to uphold and enforce the laws of our society. Of course the way they do this today had undergone changes from the first police forces of early America, law enforcement has seen trends come and go.

This means that police departments should be efficient and work in a similar manner to the military. This holds true today because both still have the same general job description- to use force, if needed, to protect citizens.

The philosophy of Robert Peel that “the police are the public and the public are the police”, is one that perfectly sums up the relationship between the police and the rest of the community (Lentz & Chaires 2007). This quote suggests that law enforcement needs approval from citizens and residents of neighbourhoods to perform their duties correctly. Meaning, this requires the police to maintain an informed relationship with the community. By doing so they are reducing the reoccurrence of the themes in crime prevention mentioned above.