Topic 5 Flashcards
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police aims and objectives
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- Protect the public/society
- Protect life and property, preservation of the peace, and detection of criminal offences
- Provide external social control to encourage conformity to social rules
- Bring safety and put people at ease on the streets
- Deter crime and reduce the crime rate level within society
- Uphold law fairly and firmly
- Support of victims
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the police working practices
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- Divided into constabularies around the country - 43 across England and Wales
- There are currently 123,171 police officers
- Certain roles within the police are shared across constabularies eg. geographical profilers
- The police directly work with offenders as they are responsible for enforcing the law, they work with varying levels of criminals minor to major crimes
- The police have various jobs such as responding to emergency/non-emergency from the public.
- There are various divisions for dealing with different crimes including SOCOs, forensic specialists, armed response teams, cyber crime divisions, detectives, profilers
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the judiciary aims and objective
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- To ensure the rule of law and legal security for individuals
- Making sure the law is interpreted and applied correctly.
- Give out just sentences
- Provide clarification on the law – either through jury guidance or setting precedent
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The judiciary working practices
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-Judges operate in four different criminal courts - the Crown Court, the Court of
Appeal, the Supreme Court of Justice and the European Court of Justice
- There are 600 circuit judges currently working in the UK
-Magistrates operate in the Magistrates Courts
- Altogether there are 77 crown courts across the UK
-There are Crown Courts that are all over the country that hold the trials of indictable and triable either-way offences such as murder and GBH
-Judges can hear a case without a jury if they believe the case will be long/complex
- Judges have to take an oath of allegiance and the judicial oath
