ATS1282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Decentralised System, Random Checkpoint, Victoria Police
16 Aug 2018
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Provision of social services: there are a range of emergency services (retrieving cats from trees, coordination of air, land and sea search and rescue operations) Traffic management: ensure the smooth and safe flow of traffic, regulating traffic laws and driver habits; managing and enforcing drink driving campaigns (booze bus operations); handling license allocation and suspensions; attending traffic accidents; participating in accident-prevention schemes. "bobbies: peel"s principles, prevent crime and disorder, public approval essential, need to encourage co-operation and voluntary observance of law, minimum and proportionate use of force. Modern policing: reality vs fiction, fiction - dramatic car chases, psychopathic killer, investigating underworld, reality - few homicides, few car chases, modest clearance rates, workload includes social services" - bulk of police time is spent maintaining public order. Primary roles and techniques: crime fighting, reactionary (demand-led, peacekeeping, pre-emptive (problem solving) techniques techniques. Measure of effectiveness: changes in crime rates and number of arrests, changes in police-community relations and peaceful restoration of order.
