Sample questions Flashcards
What are the three R’s of traditional policing?
Random patrol,rapid response, andreactive investigation.
What are the three P’s of community based policing?
Prevention, problem solving and partnerships with the community.
What are the key provisions of the Adequacy standards as they relate to community policing ?
-provide communty based crime prevention strategies,
-prepare a business plan every three years
establish procedures and processes onproblem oriented policing and crime prevention.
-develop mechanismsto ensure compliance to PSA and Adequacy Standards.
What is a clearance rate?
-a percentage of cases where an offence has been committed and a suspect identified.
Which of the following has been indicated in studies of police services?
-majority of police in Canada practice traditional model of patrol.
What has been revealed by research studieson traditionalpatrol practice?
The response time of the policeis not related to levels of crime.
What was found in research studies that assessed the impact of community policing?
- officers involved in community policing tend to have higher levels of job satisfaction.
What is meant by proactive targeted strategies?
Proactive targeted strategies rely on the use of patrol for the apprehension, deterrence, and incapacitation of of criminal offenders and include cover patrol, saturation patrol, roadblocks and repeat complaint address policing
What are crime prevention programs and how do they differ from proactive targeted strategies and community service approaches?
- community and police initiatives whose primary objective is to prevent crime and reduce levels of criminal activity.
- crime prevention programs make extensive use of community partenerships and and are more focused on problem solving.
What does acronym SARA stand for?
Scanning, Analysing, Responding, and Assessing, the four stepa of the problem-solving process.
What does it mean for a police organization to be a learning organization and identify the characteristics of a police service that is a learning organization.
For the police service to be recognized as a learning organization it must have the capacity to continually gather and analyze information, assess organizational performance, and make the adjustments required to deliver effective policing services. The goal is to achieve greater organizational effectiveness. Police services that ARE learning organizations are continually interacting and gathering information from the environments in which they police as well as from other external sources including “best practices”. A learning organization is continually expanding its capacity to create its future. This involves creating an organizational environment that interacts with its external environment, rather than being isolated from it.
What is an environmental scan?
Environmental Scans are studies that identify forces in the communitythat may affect the demands that will be made upon the police. A typical environmental scan involves gathering information from a wide range of sources. Such sources include:
- demographic social and ecanomic trends
- crime trends
- public perceptions of and satisfaction with the police
- the impact of technology
- human resources
- finances
- the goals and objectives of the police service
- a profile of police personnel
- the impact of federal legislation, TCJA, Charter of Rights and Freedoms and provincial legislation such as Police Act
What are best practices?
Best proactices refer to those organizational, administrative, and operational strategies that have proven successful in preventing and responding to crime and disorder.
What is benchmarking?
Benchmarking is a process whereby an organization continually measures and compares its activities and performance with other organizations in order to improve effectiveness..
What is strategic planning?
Strategic planning is a dynamic and continuous process that helps the organization and its units set objectives, develop programs to achieve them and arrange its resources to make that happen.
