Reference no: EM133273529

CRMJ-205 C-Police Admin. & Operations

Please review Sir Robert Peel's Nine Principles of Policing and answer the following questions. Be sure to address each question.

The nine principles by Sir Robert Peel

1. The primary mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
2. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.
3. Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.
4. The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of using physical force.
5. Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
6. Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient.
7. Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historical tradition that the police are the public and 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.
8. Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the judiciary's powers.
9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.

Which of Robert Peel's principles do you feel is the most relevant to policing in the United States today? Why?

What surprised you about the nine Peelian principles?

Do you think new police officers should be taught about these principles? Why or why not?