"The purpose of the police mission, goals, objectives, and other important values is to guide police officers in their operational duties as well as police executives in conducting their administrative duties (Cordner, 2016)." The most general statement of the purpose of a police organization is usually its mission. The mission statement typically expresses the most important values that guide the department and the overall philosophy of the agency.The mission statement that Chief Mangan used for the Spokane Police Department was to provide direction and purpose for the management of the patrol division (Cordner, 2016). This statement encouraged all personnel to take risk and innovative approaches to problem solving. Mangan's mission statement …show more content…
I think that they are worded differently, but stand for the same thing. The mission statement for Portland, Oregon states its mission is to reduce crime by working with all citizens to preserve life, maintain human rights, protect property and promote individual responsibility and community commitment (Cordner, 2016). I think their mission reflects values and the community policing method that Mangan's established in Spokane, Washington. Houston, Texas mission statement also reflects the values that Mangan's incorporated as chief. Their mission statement states to enhance the quality of life in the City of Houston by working cooperatively with the public and the framework of the U.S. Constitution to enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear and provide for a safe environment (Cordner, 2016). This statement to implies that working with the community to make it a better place is what their department stands for. It is another form of community policing worded differently. I think that the mission statement of Madison, Wisconsin does not follow the trends of community policing. It states We, the members of the Madison Police Department, are committed to providing high quality police services that are accessible to all members of the community (Cordner, 2016). We believe in the dignity of all people and respect individual and constitutional rights in fulfilling this mission. This mission statement doesn't say that we are gonna work hand and hand with the community to ensure things go accordingly. It states that they will provide high quality service to everyone they provide service to and will do so with respect and dignity while not violating your constitutional rights. I think that this department is more legalistic style of of policing. I think this department leaders may believe that this style of policing for their city would be more
As mentioned in the mission statement of the police department, the safety and comfort of the
It also brought in new applicants so that the department could be built back up and no longer be the lowest staffed department within the state. Two years after taking the position of Chief and revitalizing it internally, he was ready to focus his attention on the departments community relationship (Cordner, 2016). He started by finding the natural leaders within the department whose support would be critical to making changes and formed an informal advisory group that would meet several times a week to discuss the organizations strengths and weaknesses and how the department could be improved. He used these meetings as ‘think tanks’ to find out what people within the department were thinking (Cordner, 2016). He people feel like they could voice their opinion without any negative repercussions. Mangan then moved to forming a value statement for the department. He went with the FBI’s model which took its initials and revised them to also mean Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. Spokane too this hook and revised their initials to also stand for Service, Pride, and Dedication (Cordner,
We will provide quality police service in partnership with other members of the community. To fulfill our mission, we will strive to attain the highest degree of ethical behavior and professional conduct at all times (Chicago Police Department’s website: http://home.chicagopolice.org/inside-the-cpd/our-mission/).
With the examples that are presented, each of them describes how the police are working for and with the community that they serve. With the formation of the values statement by the strategic planning commission in Spokane, it reflects the same ideals as the mission statements from the examples. Many police departments also include a values statement as the Spokane Police Department created. Mission statements even include the use of community based policing as its basis. Even going one step further with an example of a mission statement, I add to the examples of the mission statement from the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (MNPD). Our mission statement states “The Mission of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is to provide
Most organization have develop an element called a mission statement. A mission statement describes and helps focus the attention of organizational members and external constituents on the organization's core purpose. This is use in the criminal justice and security agency use mission statement for the success of the organization and better serve the community or businesses that they have agree to serve and protect.
The mission and values that are of importance will be taken from Portland, Oregon, Houston, Texas, Madison, Wisconsin because all of their attributes is beneficial to the community. For instance, it is vital that police officers work with the community, whether than against them regardless of their geographical location. A law enforcement officer cannot become effective to the community unless there are some trust and respect(Cordner, G.W., 2016). I believe that The Constitutional Rights need to be exercised and protect when it dehumanizes people. Therefore, peace and providing a safe environment is needed in our society now, due to terrorism and other malicious crime. Spokane Washington value statement states that it is service oriented,
The current Mission Statement of the Jackson Police Department is to improve the quality of life for its citizens and to reduce the problems associated with crime. They want to educate the officers and public and develop a co-active partnership with the community. They endeavor to be honest, fair, impartial, courteous, and respectful. I must admit I was shocked to see this as their mission. (JPD, unknown). After reading the mission for Madison, Wisconsin I can say that I was proud of their police department and could see myself living in a city where the police strive to give its citizen high-quality police services. They also stated that giving all of its citizens respect and dignity and for me, that sounds like key elements that all police
Numerous police agency’s and police officials work on a distinctive local, state, and federal level and role. It has its individual area, sectors, and function, and work according to local streets parts inside policing. In order for any local, state, and federal police division to work successfully it must hire chiefs, deputy’s, and sheriffs who retain leadership and who uses creative thinking skills to teach comprehensive, and aggressive instruction to make the police division a tougher department by holding all its workers tasks for doing his or her job according to its agency’s guidelines and procedures known as code of conduct. “Municipal police work for municipalities such as towns or cities, county police and deputy sheriffs work for counties, state police work for states, and federal police work for the federal government. Some have the same duties as one another or very similar duties, and some have different or additional duties. Their jurisdiction is sometimes the main difference. For example, a municipal police officer normally has primary
Policing is a dangerous profession. As police officers, we have been entrusted the great responsibility to protect life and property and arrest criminal offenders. “The apprehension of criminal offenders and protection of property must at all times be subservient to the protection of life.” It is our policy to value and preserve human life, to include our own. Efficient and effective use of force can reduce injuries to both suspects and officers. The ultimate goal when applying use of force, is to make an arrest and bring a potentially unsafe situation to a smooth and peaceful conclusion as soon as possible. Many officers preferred that the subject allow himself to be arrested peacefully, but when that is not the case, officers must make
Reactive patrols and proactive patrols are mainstays of American police agencies. Reactive patrols provide the required rapid law enforcement response to citizen requests for assistance and other emergencies. Meanwhile, proactive patrols provide the necessary planning and allocation of police resources to effectively respond to specific, ongoing problems such as "white collar crime" and the "victimless crimes" of drug transactions behind closed doors. Careful examinations of each patrol type and the effects of using exclusively reactive patrols or exclusively proactive patrols show that a balanced approach using both types of patrols gives the best law enforcement response to the needs of the community.
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.
But some models are different, such as centralized and decentralized. In the centralized hierarchy of organizations, the decisions or personnel actions, planning, formulation of policies and procedures, adjudication of conflicts and other significant issues are made from the top. In decentralized organizations, the decision on these major issues is routinely made throughout the organization. Whether an organization is centralized or decentralized mostly depends on the type of agency and the beliefs of the top managers. This decision depends on the expertise of all the managers and the staff personnel. 5 Mission statements, if properly understood and accepted by organized personnel, is the framework by which an organization will operate. A mission statement can be defined as a statement or description of an organization’s common purpose and continuing purpose for existing responsibility of it’s client or constituents, at least by implicating it’s ideology, values and operation’s principals. An example of a mission statement by a business may be: (1) Quality comes first (2) Customers are the focus of everything we do. (3) Continuous improvement is essential to everything we do. (4) Employee involvement is our way of life. (5) Dealers and suppliers are our partners. (6) Integrity is never compromised. An example of a criminal justice organization may be: “ The mission of the department is to safely incarcerate convicted felons; to keep inmates secure, safe from physical
The purpose of the police force is to protect and serve while upholding Constitutional human rights. All police departments follow some code of honor that functionally swears them into oath that they will enforce laws while assisting and protecting the general populace. This much can be said about all police forces across the nation and of for the most part – the world. That being said, there is no exception in Aberdeen. Aberdeen’s department is composed of 45 active officers and 4 reserve officers along with 9 civilian employees. The mission statement that the department released to the population of Aberdeen declares that they will provide fairness in their judgments to promote trust amongst the community while demonstrating respect for each other and the general populous. Also, honesty and integrity are to be maintained while demonstrating competence in the environment. In serving the public they agree to regulate traffic abnormalities, investigate crimes, and provide escort services for business, funerals and so forth. But that’s not all, they respond to just about anything that is called in or brought to their attention by any other means, in quite a literal sense they are servants of the people.
Police officer nowadays see themselves more like peace officer trying to strive for peace in the community rather than enforce the law all the time. Which eventually would help prevent crime overall without force.
1. The basic mission for whom the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.