JSB173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fitzgerald Inquiry, Royal Commission Into The New South Wales Police Service, Whistleblower
JSB173 LECTURE 2
Police in the Criminal Justice System
Part One
Overview
Police vs policing
How did police (as a state agency) emerge?
What are the main roles of police?
Police or Policing?
‘A state-organised specialist police organization of the modern kind is only one kind of
policing’
(Reiner in Palmer, 2012: 408)
Who else does Policing Work?
Private security
Immigration, customs, border protection
Environmental protection agencies
RSPCA
Etc.
Have authority to apply law, enforce punishments
Pre-police Policing
Modern police forces/services are recent phenomena
Historically, policing done by citizenry in an ad hoc way
The ‘hue and cry’
oPublic outcry/clamor
Modern police forces/services are recent phenomena
Historically, policing done by citizenry in an ad hoc way
The ‘hue and cry’
Peelian Principles
Developed by Robert Peel
Policing by consensus
Police should be unarmed
Minimal use of force necessary
Police should be uniformed and visible
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Document Summary
A state-organised specialist police organization of the modern kind is only one kind of policing" (reiner in palmer, 2012: 408) Have authority to apply law, enforce punishments. The hue and cry": public outcry/clamor. Historically, policing done by citizenry in an ad hoc way. An act for regulating the police in the town and port of sydney and for removing and preventing nuisances and obstructions therein [6th august, 1833. ] Modern police forces/services are a relatively recent phenomenon. Police work is shaped by cultural and historical context (see nettelbeck and smandych 2010) Police had, and continue to have, a wide variety of roles. Police discretion: capacity of police offers to make choices of criminals that they do and do not pursue. What they choose to record becomes a statistic, not what they ignore (no-criming) (reiner in palmer, 2012: 415) Police control access to the criminal justice system via use of their discretion.
