Order Maintenance Flashcards
Associated with:
Zero tolerance policing and community policing
Primary emphasis
Maintaining ‘quality of life’
6 features: it is
-Proactive
Order maintenance and stop and search:
Proactive - peacekeeping and public safety
Discretion - prevention (airport, etc.), community safety (public see it as a signal of police presence and control)
Role:
Guardians of the Queen’s Peace
- patrolling streets and dealing with local disputes and disorder
- play a role in reducing crime and reassuring public
6 features: feelings of
-‘community safety’
6 features: conception of policing as
-‘public service’
6 features: resolving petty disputes where no crime has
-occurred
6 features: deals with ‘threats’ to
-public peace, disturbances, drunks, anti-social behaviour etc.
6 features: peacekeeping such as:
-traffic control, football match presence