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Eventually, every organization faces staffing challenges. However, the difference lies in the manner a company reacts to staffing issues. Staffing issues can be internal, external, or both. In addition, the intensity levels of the issues may vary from company to company. Recently, the Virginia State Police suffered from several staffing issues. This paper will address the specific staffing concerns with the Virginia Police Department, the ineffectiveness of the situation illustrated in the article, and ways the police department could have done differently or prepared itself better.

Staffing in a Sheriff's organization is an extremely important part of human resource management. It helps to identify the strengths of the current workforce and opportunities for improvement that relate to the delivery of service within the organization. In order to find out the staffing issues within a Sheriff's organization, it is important to conduct an analysis of the whole organization in order to view the arising matters. This assessment should also look at the performance measures for the organization and make sure these are appropriately addressed ADDIN EN.CITE Ammons2008928(Ammons & Edwards, 2008)92892817Ammons, David N.Edwards, Joshua S.Practitioner's Corner: Misrepresentation of Staffing Standards for PoliceState & Local Government ReviewState & Local Government Review186-1944032008Carl Vinson Institute, University of Georgia0160323Xhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/25469793( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_1" o "Ammons, 2008 #928" Ammons & Edwards, 2008).

Hiring police officers to perform private security work has positive aspects and potential pitfalls. Business owners vary in their opinion on hiring police officers. Liability and cost are reasons some prefer to hire private security guards or take other security measures. Other business owners prefer the training, professionalism, deterrence, and authority that come with hiring a police officer. Due to lawsuits involving off-duty police officers, the Courts have had to develop tests to determine when a moonlighting police officer is working under the authority of the private company or in the role of a peace officer. Issues have arisen about the

Amongst the controversy surrounding the NCAA’s recent crackdown on violations with regards to college programs compensating players and players accepting compensation from universities and outside sources, one question has understandably been brought up. It is a question that was bound to be asked sooner or later, and one without an obvious answer: should college athletes be paid? It is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, question that surrounds the world of college sports. The answer, quite simply put, is no.

Being a college student-athlete is a full-time job, bouncing between the weight room, the court/field, classes, and film sessions. College athletics are extracurricular activities, but the schedules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) tournaments require an extended period in which the student-athletes must miss school. Not only do they miss class, but they are absent for nationally televised games that make a lot of money and receive millions of viewers.

Worden (1995) executed a police services study on 5,700 police-citizen encounters and discovered that the police use of force only amounted to 1% of all encounters. Furthermore, in 1/3 of these encounters, it was a witness who refereed the force to be unnecessary or excessive. Worden then analyzed and revised the data to include interactions only of those citizens who were suspects and even still, improper force was observed in only 1% of the encounters. Over a decade later, the findings consist with Worden remain basically unchanged.

It is widely known that police officers are given a substantial amount of latitude concerning vehicular searches while on patrol. Many officers make it a habit to ask citizens they pull over if it 's okay to search their cars, while others will only ask if they have reason to believe that a suspect is hiding something. Either way, what should you do if the police search your car without your permission, and without first obtaining a search warrant? Most people know that police officers need one of three things to search your car: permission, probable cause or a warrant. Unfortunately, an officer will obtain one of those three things if he is determined to execute a search, even if there is a possibility that it will later be thrown out in court. If permission is denied and they don 't have sufficient evidence for a warrant, just about anything can be used for probable cause. For example, let 's say that you 're pulled over for speeding, and when the police officer takes your license and registration, he notices that your eyes are red. This is a common side effect of marijuana use (and about a thousand other things), but he might decide that he wants to search your car, so he asks permission. If you don 't give it, but there is a large jacket tossed over the passenger seat of the car, he can use that jacket and your red eyes to generate probable cause. After all, you might be concealing an ounce of marijuana underneath the jacket, and he would have to search your car if he

Each year citizens die in encounters with law enforcement officers. It is reported that “Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist” (Rucke, 2013). Although there is no official data base tracking these occurrences it is estimated that between 500 and a 1,000 people are killed by police officers each year. To put this in greater perspective this number equals approximately 5,000 since the 9/11 terror attack which is roughly the same number as U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the line of duty in Iraq (Rucke, 2013). This statistic is justifiably concerning. The cause of police related killings are multifold and cannot be attributed to only one factor. Many deaths may be unavoidable and perhaps, dependent on the situation, necessary. I contend, however, that many of these deaths may very well be preventable.

Stress counseling has become a staple in the status quo of law enforcement. This is due to the discovery of post-shooting trauma that exists with officers who have experienced a justified homicide. It tends to stick with many of them, the stress and negative feelings surfacing through dreams, flashbacks and could result in hesitance to perform in like manner in the future. To counteract this, agencies require that the officers who exhibit these symptoms and others to undergo stress counseling and either use an impartial internal counselor or outsource to local counselors to conduct the sessions and sign off on officers who are competent enough to return to work. Due to the untrusting nature of police officers, it's difficult to get them to

Is there a need to broaden the roles of traffic police, and how so? This essay will discuss this question, and argue for or against whether or not traffic police should broaden their roles within the police force. While there are limited references to refer to on aspects of policing and traffic policing, this essay will discuss the different roles and functions related to police officers in general, followed by what the roles and functions of traffic police are. Following this, the essay will continue to discuss traffic officers in regards to what the communities perceptions of them are, plus what could be done in the future in the form of educating the community of their roles. Along with this, the essay will also discuss how their duties

Throughout history of the United States and Mexican border there has been multiple depths of changes and immigration. From the area trading country ownership to population changes to having a fence line created on it. Seen in Figure1, the U.S.-

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.

Making calls to the police does nothing if they do not respond. The response role is a very important aspect of policing. The police have been getting better and better at responding to calls. On some university campuses, the police can respond anywhere between 30 seconds to 2 minutes, that is amazing. There have been big cases in the past where police response times were crucial to the safety of the citizens. The most common response roles are the routine incident response, emergency response, and differential police response.

Police officers risk their lives everyday in the line of duty. Whether it 's pulling someone over, responding to a breaking and entering call, rushing to the scene of an accident, or even driving home after work, they risk their lives doing it. Lately, police have been ridiculed while on duty on a daily basis. Citizens seem to dislike officers more and more leading to an all around negative view of police. Something needs to be done to stop all this hatred towards police officers. The Grayling police force needs to create a more positive police presence to combat negative stereotypes.

The problem with officer-written reports is the job of a police officer is very stressful. One may be the first to arrive on the scene and have six situations happening all at the same time, while the officer is just trying to gain control of the situation. The officer is not thinking about the reports he or she has to write when the situation concludes.