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Select five of these principles you feel are still important for today’s police officers.
Under the five principles you select, tell me why they are still relevant for officers to follow to maintain trust with the community (at least 100 words per principle).
9 Policing Principles
To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To recognize always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behavior, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To recognize always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing cooperation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To recognize always that the extent to which the cooperation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To seek and preserve public favor, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humor, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public cooperation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To recognize always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):
To recognize always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them
Why is this principle crucial for police to follow (respond with at least 100 words):