CPC 1.1 What Is Policing?

Question 1

Define Policing

Answer 1

The maintenance of law and order by a police force

Question 2

Peel’s Nine Policing Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 1

Answer 2

1. Prevention not punishment

Question 3

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 2

Answer 3

2. Job is easier with public approval

Question 4

What is the PDR model?

Answer 4

• PREVENTION of crime
• DISCRUPTION of crime
• RESPONSE to crime

Question 5

What are the three components needed in order for a crime to occur?

Answer 5

1. Victim
2. Offender
3. Location

Question 6

Who is the offender?

Answer 6

The person who carried out the crime

Question 7

Define location in relation to a crime

Answer 7

• The victim and offender have to interact in time and space in some way, at some point.
• Doesn’t have to be a physical location
• There must be a connection to NSW!

Example: social media site

Question 8

What a strategies used to prevent crime? (3)

Answer 8

• Education strategies
• Media campaigns
• High Visibility Policing
• Environmental Design Influence

Question 9

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 3

Answer 9

3. Job is easier if the public willingly observes the law

Question 10

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 4

Answer 10

4. Public cooperation leads to less use of force

Question 11

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 5

Answer 11

5. Public favour is achieved by being impartial, independent and professional

Question 12

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 6

Answer 12

6. Physical force should be used as a last resort

Question 13

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 7

Answer 13

7. We are part of the community, serving the community

Question 14

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 8

Answer 14

8. We are not the law, above the law, not outside the law - we maintain the law, work within the law, and are subject to the law

Question 15

Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Law Enforcement (in short)

Principle 9

Answer 15

9. Outcomes are being met when crime and disorder are on the decrease

Question 16

Who is the offender?

Answer 16

The person who carried out the crime

Question 17

Who is the victim?

Answer 17

The person to whom the crime (or offence) will occur

Question 18

Examples of Education Strategies

Answer 18

School liaison programs that educate youth on avoiding becoming a victim and steer others away rom offending behaviours

Question 19

Examples of Media Campaigns

Answer 19

• Information distributed through different forms of media
• Designed to reduce offending behaviour, increase public cooperations and gain community approval
• “Have you got a plan B”

Question 20

Examples of High Visibility Policing

Answer 20

Where police conduct patrols of crime ‘hotspots’ in a very visible way or cause offenders to reconsider engaging in offending behaviour due to police presence

Question 21

Examples of Environmental Design Influence

Answer 21

Ensuring ATMs in a shopping centre are placed in well open locations, which are visible to many people with high-level lighting

Question 22

Prevention

Answer 22

Looks at focusing our policing efforts on one or more of the the crime triangle components

Question 23

Disruption

Answer 23

Focused on identifying the fact that criminal behaviour has been occurring and employing a strategy to disrupt or disturb the criminal behaviour of the offender

Question 24

Response

Answer 24

Includes the investigation of crime and the actions we take to:
- restore order
- take care of victims
- present offenders to the judicial system