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.”
Who is South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner?
Dr Alan Billings
How is the UK Police force unique?
“Unique in history and throughout the world because it derived not from fear but almost exclusively from public co-operation with the Police, induced by them decidedly by behaviour which secures and maintains for them the approval, respect and affection of the public.”
- Charles Reith (1956).
Policing by ….
Consent
The Power of the police coming from the common consent of the public, as apposed to the power of the state. It does not mean the consent of an individual.
Who assess the legitimacy of Police Forces?
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.
What are the three levels of Information and Intelligence in the National Information Model (NIM)?
Level One - Deals with crime, incidents and neighbourhood priorities occurring at a local basic command unit (BCU) level.
Level Two- Deals with issues affecting a group of BCU’s, Neighbourhood forces or a group of forces.
Level Three- Is dealt with by the National Crime Agency (NCA) which operates on a national or international scale.
What is the role of the police service?
The purpose of the Police Service is to uphold the law fairly, firmly and with integrity by:
- Preventing crime
- Pursuing and bringing to justice those who break the law.
- Keeping the queens peace.
- Protecting, assisting and reassuring the community.
What is the role of a Police Constable?
- Protect life and property.
- Preserve order.
- Prevent the commission of offences.
- Where an offence has been committed, to take measures to bring the offender to justice.
What is the senior command team of SYP?
Senior Command Team
Chief Constable Stephen Watson
Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts
Assistant Chief Constable Lauren Poultney
Assistant Chief Constable David Hartley
Assistant Chief Constable Tim Forber
Interim Director of Resources Jacqueline Bland
Who are the four commanders for each district of SYP?
Barnsley- T/Chief Superintendent Sarah Poolman
Doncaster- Chief Superintendent Shaun Morley
Rotherham- T/Chief Superintendent Stephen Chapman
Sheffield- Chief Superintendent Una Jennings
