Chapter 5 Key Terms Flashcards
Aircraft patrol
Patrol by airplane and helicopter is viewed as a necessity for many agencies
Allocation of personnel
Refers to making decision about how many officers should be assigned to the various units in the police department
Police operations
Refer to the services provided to citizens and the methods used by police agencies when delivering these services
Beat boundaries
.geographic area an officer is in charge of patrolling
Patrol function
Performed by patrol officers who are allocated across beats to respond to calls and to observe for crime and suspicious activities
Investigative function
Is directed at solving crimes reported to the police, apprehending criminals, and recovering stolen property
Committed time
Refers to any time that an officer is committed to some call or police activity
Control Beats
Normal patrol
Crime Suppression Force
Officers devote its time almost exclusively to crime prevention, deterrence, and apprehension activities
Criminal Investigation
The processes, techniques , and methods that focus on solving crimes reported to or discovered by police
Differential police response
Responding to citizen calls by means other than dispatching an officer
Directed Patrol
Consist of variety of strategies : saturation patrol, stake outs, surveillance of suspects, and decoys.
It’s implementation recognizes that crime and other police hazards are not equally distributed across and time, and that recognizable patterns can often be identified.
(Directed) D Runs
When officers are assigned travel to a specific location to have an impact on crime, disorder , or traffic problems
311 call number
A police non emergency number that serves as a filter to allow emergency calls to be handled more quickly
Foot patrol
A form of preventive patrol where officers walk an assigned beat
Reactive beats
When patrol is withdrawn and police only enters the beats to respond to calls
Proactive beats
Two or three times the normal levels of patrolling
Differential police response
Entails responding to citizen calls by means other than dispatching an officer
Split force patrol
The patrol force was split into two separate patrol groups:
- The patrol call- answering group
- The criminal interception group
Stop and frisk stops
Are where police officers observe a suspicious person, stop the person, and talk with him or her
Suspect oriented techniques
Are where agencies direct officers to concentrate on known suspects or classes of individuals
Pretextual traffic stop
Occurs where an officer uses the pretext of a traffic violation to stop a vehicle to investigate for other crimes
Preliminary investigations
An until inquiry into a reported crime. The process remains the same regardless of whether the investigation is to be conducted by a patrol officer or a detective
Follow up investigations
The process of formally observing or studying by close examination and systematic inquiry the evidence of a crime for the purposes of criminal prosecution
Walk through’s
When the suspect has been identified and apprehended
Where - are- they’d
When the suspect has been identified but officers have been unable to make an apprehension
Whodunits
When the preliminary investigation did not result in identification of the perpetrator
Modus Operandi Files
Are file that describe how known suspects commit specific crimes
Latent Investigation
Are instituted once a crime is turned over to the detective unit aka follow up investigation
