SPOs Unit 1 Administration Flashcards

The test question MUST respond directly to the SPO and for every SPO there is a test question.

To protect the life and property of yourself and the public.

The characteristics and expected social behavior of an individual.

Behavior preformed in the course of perusing ones job or vocation.

When the officers perceive a clash between competing perceptions, values and standards when deciding what behavior is appropriate.

-A state of physical and psychological arousal -The wear and tear on the body

A specific event which causes unusually strong emotional reactions and which has the potential to interfere with the ability to function later or at the scene.

1. Cognitive – Symptoms impacting ones thought process 2. Physical – symptoms effecting the body 3. Emotional – Symptoms effecting ones feelings 4. Behavioral – Symptoms revealed by a person’s actions or reactions

1. Physical Exercise 2. Structured time 3. Talk to family and friends4. Eat healthy foods 5. Don’t make major life changes

1. Community Policing is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and community residents to work closely together in new ways to solve the problems of crime, fear of crime, physical and social disorder, and neighborhood decay. 2. Community Policing organizational strategy first demands that everyone in the department, including both civilian and sworn personnel, must investigate ways to translate the philosophy into practice. 3. To implement true Community Policing, police departments must also create and develop a new breed of line officer, the Community Police Officer (CPO), who act as the direct link between the police and the people in the community. 4. The CPO’s broad role demands continuous, sustained contact with the law-abiding people in the community, so that together they can explore creative new solutions to local concerns involving crime, fear of crime; disorder, and decay, with private citizens serving as unpaid volunteers. 5. Community Policing implies a new contract between the police and the citizens it serves, one that offers the hope of overcoming widespread apathy, at the same time it restrains any impulse to vigilantism 6. Community Policing adds a vital pro-active element to the traditional reactive role of the police, resulting in full-spectrum police service. 7. Community Policing stresses exploring new ways to protect and enhance the lives of those who are most vulnerable – juveniles, the elderly, minorities, the poor, the disabled, the homeless. 8. Community Policing promotes the judicious use of technology, but it also rests on the belief that nothing surpasses what dedicated human beings, talking and working together, can achieve. 9. Community Policing must be a fully integrated approach that involves everyone in the department, with the CPOs as specialist in bridging the gap between the police and the people they serve. 10. Community Policing provides decentralized, personalized police service to the community. It recognizes that the police cannot impose order on the community from outside, but that people must be encouraged to think of the police as a resource they can use in helping to solve contemporary community concerns.

1. Specific body of knowledge 2. Extensive preparation through education and training 3. Code of ethics 4. Licensing, regulation by boards and councils 5. Commitment and obligation to client 6. Relative professional autonomy. 7. Public acknowledgment of status

The use of the individual judgment by officers in making decisions as to which of several behavioral responses is appropriate in specific situations.

A dual system of government

The process of assuring fundamental fairness in the application of criminal justice.

The facts and circumstances which would lead a reasonable person to believe that a condition exists that justifies the action to be taken.