Police Foundations LAW250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Crime Prevention, Environmental Design, Job Satisfaction
9 Jun 2018
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POLICE FOUNDATIONS-LAW250
LECTURE 6
Crime Prevention and Community Policing
Responding to and preventing crime within a community-policing framework:
Learning objectives:
• Define
- Targeting strategies
- Community service approaches
- Crime prevention programs
• Provide examples of
- Primary prevention programs
- Secondary prevention programs
- Tertiary prevention programs
• Describe how environmental design can prevent crime
• Provide examples of the strategies for reducing opportunities for crime and social disorder
• Discuss the effectiveness of and limits on crime prevention programs
• Discuss the mediation and conflict resolution strategies used by patrol officers
4 principles of the safer communities approach:
• Community is the focal point of effective crime prevention
• Community must identify and respond to short and long term needs
• Crime prevention efforts should bring together individuals from a range of sectors to tackle
crime
• Strategies for preventing crime should be supported by the entire community
Proactive targeted strategies:
• Rely on the use of patrol for the apprehension, deterrence, and incapacitation of criminal
offenders
• Strategies used include:
- Cover patrol
- Repeat offender targeting
- Saturation patrol
- Roadblock
- Repeat complaint address policing
Tactical or directed patrol:
• Saturating high crime areas- hot spots- with police officers, or targeting individuals
involved in specific types of criminal activity
1. Hard crime calls: hold up alarms, shootings, stabbings, auto theft, thefts from assaults,
and sexual assaults
2. Soft crime calls: audible break in alarms, disturbances, drunk, noise, unwanted
persons, vandalism, prowlers, fights and physical injuries
The challenges of tactical or directed patrol:
• Developing strategies to alter the role and attitude of police officers from reactive to
proactive
• Convincing officers that their current call loads allow for directed patrol projects
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Document Summary
Responding to and preventing crime within a community-policing framework: Crime prevention programs: provide examples of. Proactive targeted strategies: rely on the use of patrol for the apprehension, deterrence, and incapacitation of criminal offenders, strategies used include: The challenges of tactical or directed patrol: developing strategies to alter the role and attitude of police officers from reactive to proactive, convincing officers that their current call loads allow for directed patrol projects. Police foundations-law250: analyzing crime patterns, trends and patrol officer workloads and activities, dealing with diminished police resources, which inhibit the ability to implement tactical or directed patrol. Increase feelings of personal safety among community residents. Foot patrol: back to the beat: reduce the fear of crime, reduce calls for service. Higher morale then officers in patrol cars. Bicycle patrols: police officers on mountain bikes are deployed into areas of high crime and social disorder, benefits of bicycles: Ability to maneuver into areas where patrol cars are unable.
