Professional Distance/Use of Technology Flashcards
Under the Professional distance Policy, what three key things are employees expected to do? (3)
Clue: Maintain…, Manage…, Avoid…
- maintain professional distance from those we deal with in our work
- manage personal relationships where conflict of interest or imbalance of power arise. Declare to supervisor.
- avoid unethical or innapropriate relationships
What is a ‘professional relationship?
Incudes relationships between…? (4)
A relationship that has arisen out of the employees work duties. Includes relationship between:
- two police employees
- employee and memeber of public
- employee and associate
- employee and contractor and others
Why are some professional relationships considered unequal? (3)
Clue: Disclose, ability, vunerable
- required to disclose personal/private info. Not recipricated
- ability and power held by us to be decision-maker
- vulnerable person
What list of people must you avoid forming personal relationships with, in particular sexual relationships while you are dealing with them in a professional capacity? As these are considered unethical? (7)
Clue: O, V, WF, I, VP, PC, C
- Offenders
- Victims
- Witnesses and families
- Informants
- Vulnerable people
- Persons in Custody
- Complainants
What are the ‘Employee Principles’ that employees must adhere to with regards to Acceptable use of Police technology, equipment and Information?
Clue: Embrace, Responsible, expectation, access, misuse, apply…
- embrace, support, embrace IMP and A policy
- responsibly use Police tech systems and equipment (personal benefit)
- no expectation of privacy
- Police entitles to acess any data/records
- not misuse Police tech systems and equipment
- apply CoC and SELF test
The monitoring and usage reports done on police technology systems and equipment focus on what three things? (3)
Clue: EI, E, IUA
- early intervention
- User education
- Increased user awareness
