SACR 2620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Metropolitan Police Service, Police Legitimacy
17 Dec 2018
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The professional model of policing: reactive approach, shift to crime fighting focus. Incident driven approach: centralized police authority, focus on calls for service, crime rates, and response times, motorized patrols instead of foot patrols, creation of specialized police units, drug squad, morality squads. Incident driven response ineffective at controlling crime: even if arrest rate is high, incarceration rate is low, constant changes in technology mean changes inn police operation and crimes. Increased pressure to cooperate to address transnational criminal activity. Professional model : aspects of policing that is in this model. Plural policing: private security organizations part of extended policing family, security governance, high policing, transnational policing to enforce law in global context, citizens" groups provide constant presence police cannot offer. The organization of public police in canada: there are three levels of police, federal, provincial, municipal; costly to maintain them.
