Lecture 1 Understanding the Police Constable Role Flashcards
In what year did Sir Robert Peel create the Metropolitan Police Act?
1829
Who were the first 2 Commissioners of the Metropolis and what did they set out?
Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, they set out General Instructions to all Police Officers known, as the Peelian Principles.
What are the 9 Policing Principles Set out in the Code of Ethics?
Accountability, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity, Leadership, Objectivity, Openness, Respect & Selflessness.
What act of Law states the definition of a Crown Servants?
The Official Secrets Act 1989.
What are the ranks in the Police force starting at Constable through to Chief Constable?
Constable, Sergeant, Inspector, Chief Inspector, Super-Intendant, Chief Super Intendant, Assistant Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable & Chief Constable.
What role do the Professional Standards Department have in Policing?
The Professional Standards department deal with complaints against officers and staff. It receives, records, investigates and resolves public complaints and also records and investigates misconduct allegations.
What document must the Policing and Crime Commissioner produce? What is the purpose of the document.
The Police and Crime Plan.
The purpose of the document is to tell the police what you the public what them to do. The plan is important as it sets out and communicates the Policing and crime priorities as the PCC sees them to the public, the police, partner agencies, the police and crime panel, the Home Secretary and others with an interest in how South Yorkshire is policed.
What are the four key principles of Procedural Justice?
- Treating people with respect and dignity.
- Making unbiased decisions and interpreting and applying rules consistently and transparently.
- Giving people a voice and hearing their concerns and experiences.
- Showing and encouraging trust by being sincere, caring and authentic, and trying to do what is right for everyone.
What is the name of the Inspections that the HMICFRS complete to assess Police Legitimacy?
PEEL Inspections.
What is the role of NCA Officers?
NCA officers work at the forefront of law enforcement, building the best possible intelligence picture of serious and organised crime threats, relentlessly pursuing the most serious and dangerous offenders and developing and delivering specialist capabilities on behalf of law enforcement and other partners.
What are the Peelian Principles?
1) The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
2) The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.
3) Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.
4) The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.
5) Police seek and preserve public favour not by pandering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
6) Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient.
7) Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
8) Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.
9) The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.
What it means to be a Police Constable?
Constables play a critical frontline role in prevention and detection of crime and the criminal justice system. Constables work in partnership on a day to day basis with local communities, stakeholders and colleagues in order to promote law and order, reduce the fear of crime, provide reassurance and build confidence to improve the quality of life for citizens.
What is the definition of a crown servant?
“Any constable and any other person employed or appointed in or for the purposes of any police force”
- Official Secrets Act 1989
What is the current Policing Vision? (Policing Vision 2025)
“To make the communities safer by upholding the law fairly and firmly; Preventing crime and antisocial behaviour, keeping the peace, protecting and reassuring communities, investigating crime and bringing offenders to justice.
What does Constabulary Independence mean?
(White Paper entitled ‘Policing in the 21st Century: Reconnecting Police and the People’
“The operational independence of the police is a fundamental principle of British Policing. We will protect absolutely that operational independence. Giving Chief Constables a clear line of accountability to directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners, they will not cut across their operational independence and duty to act without fear or favour.”
