“Nature of Police Work”
Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2011
by Reinaldo Irizarry, Sr.
In Police work, officers are involves ninety percent of the time handling small disturbances dealing with no criminal matters. Incidents, which police officers, do not enforce. The other ten percent deals with calls involving serious incidents.
Police work involves protection of life, safeguarding property through vigorous patrol techniques, enforcement of laws and ordinances in the Cities for which the Police Agency is responsible. The job needs officers to posse’s characteristics involving dedication to the profession. Not all people in Police work are there for the same reason. There are many reasons given by officers why they seek this line of work.
On a routine day, officers can go for hours without responding to any major emergency incident, forcing officers to do aggressive patrols looking for criminals. During these times, incidents can unexpectedly turns upside down. In many case getting officers seriously injured where some die as result of their injuries. One moment things are calm, and peaceful, and the next moment have bullets flying in their direction.
Officers receive specialized training in various fields such as Police Community Relations, CPR-AED certification, School Recourse Officers, Field Training Officers, and advance education, needed by their departments. Police officers receive special assignments in plainclothes involving investigation dealing with drugs, or intelligence gathering for future missions.
Police officers are concern with call, which needs them to be skillful in their field of expertise, a way; which is they can achieve status within their peer group. Police work involves the responsibility for performing various routine police assignments.
They usually consist of routine patrol in emergency police cars, Bicycle, Motorcycles, Horse Mounties, Marine boats, and on foot patrol. True Police work is not like in the movies, where the Cops near the end of the movie always catch the bad-guys.
In reality, bad-guys usually escape only to be caught days later. In addition, the offices return the next day to their routine mundane police work.
The work involves danger needing the officer to act without direct supervision and exercise independent judgment in meeting emergencies. Supervisors issue assignments review work methods and results through reports, conduct employee inspections and discussion to their officers.
Uniform Police Officers, patrol appointed areas in Cities in police cruiser to preserve law and order, to prevent and discover commission of crimes, and to enforce traffic laws. Answer calls for service, complaints involving disturbances. They perform the preliminary investigations in the assigned zones before given to the Detective bureau for follow-up and final dispositions. They are required to testify in court as professional witness.
At any crime scene where there is a victim of a crime who's been hurt officers are mandate by law to perform first aid, when waiting for rescue. They conduct the preliminary investigation, gather evidence of the crime, safeguard the evidence, get witness, and make arrest.
By using specialized investigative procedures, Field Combat Officers are the first responders to calls for service involving the following:
- Burglaries
- Domestic disturbances
- Grand Theft
- Homicide
- Missing Persons
- Robberies
- Sexual Battery (Rape)
- Traffic Accidents
- Communicate in writing, and speak effectively
- Emotionally stable
- Free from any physical deformity
- Good general average intelligence
- Have a high degree of agility for the job
- Never convicted of a crime
- Pass a physical medical examination
- Pass a psychological examination
- Pass an evasive polygraph examination
- Possess people skills
- Possess a Driver’s License
- Possess a High School Diploma or Equivalency
- Possess good physical strength
- Skillful with the assigned departmental firearms
- Bi-lingual
- Computer skills
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Police officers go through a lot :)Thanks Krist, it's a good feeling knowing that there are still good people out there that can appriciate what Police Officers do every day...
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