Section V Getting the Job Done

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Section VGetting the Job DoneThrough Others

• Chapter 13
• Deploying Law Enforcement Resources and Improving
  Productivity

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Deploying Personnel

• Police logs
• Shifts
• Proportionate assignment

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Response Time

• Rapid yet safe.
• Builds public confidence in law enforcement.
• Officers arrive at scene before evidence is
  destroyed.
• Officers provide emergency aid to crime victims.
• Increases chances of locating witnesses and
  making arrests.

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Differential Police Response Strategies Model

• A set of characteristics to define an incident
  type
• A time factor to identify the relationship
  between the time the incident occurred and the
  time the police received the call
• A full range of response strategies, going from
  an immediate response by a sworn officer to no
  response, with numerous alternatives in between

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Kinds of Patrol

• Random preventative patrol
• Puts officers closer to any potential incidents
  or requests for service before they happen
• Based on experiential data, but without any
  pattern
• Provides police presence and reduces response
  time
• Directed aggressive patrol
• Prevents and detects crime by focusing on problem
  areas and investigating suspicious activity
• Officers build an intelligence base of their beat

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Findings of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol
Experiment

• Increasing or decreasing routine preventive
  patrol had no effect on
• Crime
• Citizen fear of crime
• Community attitudes toward the police
• Police response time
• Traffic accidents

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Methods of Patrol

• Automobile
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle
• Foot patrol
• Air
• Mounted
• Water
• Special-terrain
• Segway

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Involving Citizens While Expanding the Law
Enforcement Personnel Pool

• Citizen police academies
• Citizens on patrol
• Reserves
• Volunteers
• Explorers
• Civilianization

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Deploying Resources to Fight Crime

• Mapping crime
• Hot spots occur in certain geographic areas.
• The crime triangle
• Three elements motivated offender, suitable
  victim and adequate location are required for a
  crime to occur.

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Deploying Resources in Emergencies

• Predisaster plans
• Available assistance
• Responding to an emergency
• After the emergency
• Cross-trained responders and an all-hazards
  approach

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Strategic Goals of Homeland Security

• Prevention of terrorist attacks
• Protection from terrorist attacks
• Response to and recovery from terrorist attacks

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The USA PATRIOT Act

• Allows investigators to use the tools already
  available to investigate organized crime and drug
  trafficking
• Facilitates information sharing and cooperation
  among government agencies so they can better
  connect the dots
• Updates the law to reflect new technologies and
  new threats
• Increases the penalties for those who commit or
  support terrorist crimes

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Local Police and Terrorism

• The first line of defense against terrorism is
  the local patrol officer in the field.
• Local police
• Add the critical elements of speed, resources and
  numbers to any situation
• Are able to deploy rapidly and can quickly summon
  more forces if needed

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Phases of Homeland Security

• Mitigation (lessening the threat)
• Preparedness
• Response
• Recovery

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Law Enforcement Productivity

• Measured by the quality and quantity of services
  provided
• Traditional measurement methods
• Arrests, stops, traffic citations, the value of
  recovered property and reduction of crashes and
  crime
• Law enforcement officers do not have control over
  them.
• Quotas vs. performance standards

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Symptoms of Productivity Problems

• High absenteeism and turnover
• High levels of waste
• High accident rates
• Unreasonable complaints and grievances

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Improving Productivity

• Training and experience
• Rewards and incentives
• Improved equipment
• Technology

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Leadership, Discipline, Motivation and Morale
Revisited

• The quality of management is the single most
  important factor for high productivity and
  morale.
• Leadership, discipline, motivation and morale are
  integrally related.