Homeland Security and Justice Administration Essay

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This leads the cycle back into the original planning stage as the new and improved plan can be put into practice.

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The United States Department of Justice has created a website called "COPS: Community Oriented Policing Services" in order to advance "the practice of community policing in America's state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies." ( "COPS: Community Oriented") There are three aspects of Community Policing which the Department of Justice promotes: Community Partnerships, Organizational Transformation, and Problem Solving. The COPS program also organizes conferences, grants and funding for improvements and technical assistance, as well as courses for local police officers to learn the most advanced techniques in community policing. Community Policing is one of the police organizations and operations listed in chapter 3 of Kenneth Peak's book entitled Justice Administration. (Peak, 2007) the Department of Justice's COPS website is the official site for the DOJ's office that is assigned to maintain a connection between the federal government and local communities in regard to enhancing community policing programs.

"COPS: Community Oriented Policing Services." (n.d.). United States Department

of Justice: COPS Office. Retrieved from http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=34

Chapter 4 of Peak's book involves police personnel and their roles and functions in serving the public. Peak identifies the organization of police forces, as well as their hierarchies and responsibilities from the chief of police down to the individual patrol officer. The role and responsibilities of the average patrol officer is listed in chapter 4, but they are also listed in Massachusetts official government website mass.gov in a document entitled "Municipal Police Officers' Medical Standards and Essential Functions.

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" This website consists of the medical standards required for a person to qualify as a police officer, as well as the physical abilities and fitness standards tests, but most importantly, are the essential functions of a patrol officer. This list of functions is a more complete and detailed explanation of the basic tasks listed in chapter 4 of Peak's Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management. (Peak, 2007)

"Municipal Police Officers' Medical Standards and Essential Functions." (n.d.). Mass.gov: The Official Website for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved from http://www.mass.gov/perac/disability/municipalpoliceofficers.pdf

Bratton, William, and Peter Knobler. (1998). The Turnaround: How America's

Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic. New York: Random House. Print.

"COPS: Community Oriented Policing Services." (n.d.). United States Department

of Justice: COPS Office. Retrieved from http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=34

Retrieved from http://www.fema.gov/prepared/plan.shtm

"Municipal Police Officers' Medical Standards and Essential Functions." (n.d.).

Mass.gov: The Official Website for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Retrieved from http://www.mass.gov/perac/disability/municipalpoliceofficers.pdf

Peak Kenneth. (2007). Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections

Management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Print......

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