CC291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Restorative Justice, High Visibility, Body Worn Video
Document Summary
Patrol and general duty policing: core duties of police work that are recognized by common law: crime prevention protecting life and property preserving the peace apprehending offenders enforcing laws. The work involved in patrol depends on a number of factors; department size, community setting/size/location: small scale police services tend to have a address a wider range go things. Larger scale police services can provide more support for of cers and even the communities: more back up support, victim services, traf c sections, canine units. Thus, responsibilities are not uniformly disturbed across police services. This highlights a digital dimension of police work: can allow of cers to get updated information before they arrive at the scene or helpful information at a scene. There are limited to relying on computer records, however. Furthermore, such checks are to be done within certain guidelines: but this also puts some onus on dispatchers to get information right.
