Training Key - Community Oriented Policing Part 1

Question 1

Economic, political and social pressures have forced the police to search for better ways to bring peace to their communities.

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True

Question 2

The most recent of these organizational and management models to be tested is

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community policing

Question 3

Evolutionary process in American policing will continue to involve

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experimentation, evaluation and change.

Question 4

The notion of community policing arose from

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the conflict, disorder and crime of the 1960’s where the civil rights movement brought into question the performance of many important elements of the government.

Question 5

agencies would operate much like a business or military organization

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“professional”

Question 6

One of the more significant side effects was the “professional” model of policing

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insulation and isolation of the police agencies from the community

Question 7

The professional model suggested that the only appropriate answers to crime and disorder were those generated by the police themselves

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True

Question 8

Robert Trajanowicz and David Carter defined community policing as:

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A philosophy and not a specific tactic; community policing is a proactive, decentralized approach designed to reduce crime, disorder, and by extension, fear of crime by involving the same officer in the same community on a long-term basis. Community policing can also be distinguished from other forms of policing because it derives its priorities in part from community input.

Question 9

Community Policing Consortium which includes the IACP:

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The foundations of successful community policing strategy are the close, mutual beneficial ties between the police and community members. Community policing consists of two complementary components. Community partnerships and problem solving. To develop community partnerships, police must develop positive relationships with the community, must involve the community in the quest for better crime control and prevention and must pool their resources with those of the community to address the most urgent concerns of the community members. Problem solving is the process through which the specific concerns of communities are identified and through which the most appropriate remedies to abate these problems are found.

Question 10

In problem-oriented policing the community identifies problems and assists the police in finding solutions, but the police are the ones who choose which problems to target and they are the primary problem solvers. In community policing agencies, collaborative problem identification and problem solving is much more prevalent.

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True

Question 11

The goal of COP

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to reduce crime and disorder by identifying the problems in individual neighborhoods and working with the community to find solutions.

Question 12

should be a small, well-defined geographic area and should be defined in such a manner as to maintain he social and geographic uniqueness of the neighborhood while allowing for efficient and effective police services. The community should be served by one or more officers on a permanent assignment.

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“Community”

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stressed in community policing agencies. Situations and environments are sought where officers and citizens cane be brought together in meaningful discussion or healthy interaction.

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Positive, personal contact between officers and community members

Question 14

Officers pursuing community policing agendas must be willing and available to

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listen, talk and communicate with their neighborhood-partners and to act collaboratively toward the solutions

Question 15

Concerns of the community may not be the same as the concerns of the officers or their agencies

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True

Question 16

foremost goal in efforts to form a community partnership

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Establishing and maintaining trust

Question 17

Conflicts should be used

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to build cooperative bonds that are required to maintain order

Question 18

The partnership-building process involves

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involves proximity (making contact), communication, and the establishment of trust within the community

Question 19

Problem solving is the second core component of community policing

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It is based on a number of assumptions. First, that “crime and disorder can be reduced in a small geographic area by carefully studying the characteristics of problems in the area and then applying appropriate resources…”

Question 20

There is no community-oriented policing without a

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unified community police effort

Question 21

Traditional police organizations and managements styles must be shaped to provide an environment that will

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encourage and support community policing

Question 22

Traditional police organizations can inhibit open communication

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(particularly communication up and down the chain of command)

Question 23

Community policing cannot become a reality without

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“the empowerment, participation, input, support, and commitment, participation, input support and commitment of all shareholders who represent the affected parties in the community policing enterprise.”

Question 24

Major elements of most strategic plans include

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• Vision: a mental image
• Values: the underlying principals
• Mission: an agency’s ultimate purpose
• Goals: broad statements of desired outcomes
• Strategies: Actual activities that will be performed in delivering services to the public

Question 25

Under COP, supervisors need to

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provide officer with greater latitude in performing their jobs and in making their own decisions than has been the case under traditional styles of policing

Question 26

Under COP, supervisors are free to a larger degree to

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perform other formerly unanswered needs while officers become familiar and work more closely with their communities

Question 27

Commanders and middle managers have to accept greater citizen involvement and get things done through

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participatory and democratic managements styles

Question 28

The organization should focus on the deliver of a wide range of services

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True

Question 29

Generalist patrol officers are the primary service providers

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Specialists should be developed only as required and be on call by the file officers

Question 30

In a community-oriented policing agency, the command structure is

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“flattened” to facilitate the communication, interaction and accountability

Question 31

Agencies should attempt to employ COP in

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as many areas of the jurisdiction as possible and assign a sufficient number of trained COP officer to each of these locations

Question 32

COP encourages cooperation and communication

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which in turn increases the volume and type of information provided by the agency. This information, if properly collected and funneled to a ventral departmental analysis unit along with crime and incident data. This information should be returned to the field for use by officers in preventing and solving problems