Police Field Operations Theory Meets Practice

by Birzer, Michael, Ed.D.; Roberson, Cliff

• ISBN13: 9780205508280
• ISBN10: 0205508286
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-06
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This text covers major areas of police operations including patrol, investigations, crime mapping, police operations in culturally diverse communities, community policing, persons with physical disabilities, and juveniles, hot pursuit issues, communications, gangs, and drugs. 

Author Biography

Michael L. Birzer is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the School of Community Affairs at Wichita State University .  His research interests center on police behavior and practices. He recently completed research that examined police relations with the African-American community.  In 2007, Professor Birzer published with Cliff Roberson, Policing, Today and Tomorrow -- Prentice-Hall. 

 

Cliff Roberson LLM, Ph.D is an Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at Washburn University and Retired Professor of Criminology from California State University-Fresno. His previous academic experiences include Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Arkansas Tech University; Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston, Victoria; Director of Programs, National College of District Attorneys; Director of Justice Center, California State University, Fresno; and Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Edwards University. He has authored or co-authored 47 books and texts.

Table of Contents

Chapter Title

Police Patrol: The Backbone of Policing

Introduction

A sketch of the police Development of police patrol Purpose of police patrol

Differential Response Effectiveness of Police

Patrol Reactive, proactive and coactive patrol Organizational features

Types of police patrol Allocation of patrol personnel Special

Tactical Teams Managing and supervising the patrol function Becoming

a police patrol officer Training

Police Field Procedures

Introduction

Preparing for the tour of duty Patrolling the beat Handling offenders

Civil unrest High speed pursuits Weather and natural disasters

The police K-9 Traffic stops Emergency vehicle operation

The use of force

Police Operations in a Community Policing Environment Introduction

The emergence of community policing Core components of community policing

What community policing is not Incorporating community policing on the job

Community policing and terrorism Does community policing work

Crime Scene and Preliminary Investigation Introduction

The role of patrol in the preliminary investigation Initial steps in the investigation

Photographing the scene Crime scene search

The nature of evidence Types of evidence Evidence collection Cybercrime

Interviewing and interrogation

Introduction

Principles of Interviewing Field Interviews/Investigative Stops Principles of Interrogation

Use of the Polygraph Human Lie Detector Law of Interviewing and Interrogation

Voluntariness of a Confession Non-Testimonial Evidence Immunity

Art of Listening

Handling Calls for Service Introduction

The Police Service Role Disputes Suspicious Characters Prowlers

Missing and Runaway Children Missing Adults Welfare Checks

The Mentally Ill Abandoned Vehicles Stalled Vehicles Directing

Traffic Lost Property Stolen Property Repeat Calls Citizen Contacts

Forensics Introduction Duties of a Forensic Scientist

FBI Forensic Laboratory Crime Scene Body Fluids Fibers

DNA Questioned Documents Fingerprints Firearms Digital Evidence

Legal constraints that impact police operations

Introduction

Searches Warrant Clause of the Fourth

Amendment Exceptions to the Fourth Amendment

Arrests Exclusionary rule Civil Liability Use of Force

Police reports & other correspondence Introduction

Field Notes Report Writing Chain of Custody

Reports Special Reports Records Writing Styles

Computerized Reports Recording Witness Recollections

Testifying in Court

Police communications Introduction

Police Language Radio Communications Telephone

Communications Special Communications

Issues Computer Systems Computer Networks

Gangs and Drugs Introduction Gangs Hispanic

Gangs Female Gangs Indian Country Gangs

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs National Gangs Drug

Enforcement Drug Legislation Alcohol Related Offenses Solutions to Drug and Alcohol

Abuse Drug Testing of Police Officers Gangs and Drugs

Police Operations in Culturally Diverse

Communities Introduction

Minority perceptions of police Skeletons

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