Public Approval of Policing?
Gone, Vanished or Retrievable?
by Nicholas Ashton, CEO/CIO, CommSmart Global Group - Virtual Crime Center
Missed Peelian Principles Posts?
#1 http://tip2tap.blogspot.com/2016/12/lawlessness-to-be-or-not-to-be-it.html
#2 http://tip2tap.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-rise-fall-rise-again-of-crime.html
#3 http://tip2tap.blogspot.com/2016/12/public-approval-of-power-of-police.html
#1 http://tip2tap.blogspot.com/2016/12/lawlessness-to-be-or-not-to-be-it.html
#2 http://tip2tap.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-rise-fall-rise-again-of-crime.html
#3 http://tip2tap.blogspot.com/2016/12/public-approval-of-power-of-police.html
Sir Robert Peel's third principle:
#3 To
recognise always that to secure and
maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the
willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
This third Peelian
Principle moves the police community participation and co-operation to
the next important step. It is imperative to secure and maintain the trust
and respect of the public for the police is one thing, securing the willing
co-operation of the public in terms of observance of the laws is a total other.
The extreme test
for willing adherence of, or to the law, is much like the examination for
personal integrity. Integrity or the lack thereof is revealed in
situations where an individual chooses a course of action free of coercion or
compulsion based solely on a set of principles and values. This is more common than you think if you are that out of touch.
The ratio of
police officers and services to the public (1:500) is such that a police
presence throughout the entire community at all times is impossible to
maintain. Calls for Service become a severe problem and looked at as a failure of the agencies.
Police patrolling
at best, serve as a reminder to the public that failure to observe laws can have
repercussions. If the public has not ingrained the notion of observance
of the laws even without a police presence, social order and observance of the
laws cannot be maintained.
The role of
the police, therefore, is not only to enforce the laws but also to educate the
public as to what the rules (laws) are, validate strict observance of the laws
themselves and influence the public of the merits and virtues of willingly
observing the law.
Sadly the
change is in as we have seen globally, there is a lack of Trust, Respect, and Honor for police. America and the U.K. have seen
incidents of police upholding the law, challenging individuals and having to
defend themselves, under the law and a death occurs, there the story or untrue
facts spread via social media and mayhem starts and spreads to other cities.
It is as if
there are individuals ready, willing and able to attack authority, the police
uniform, in any manner they wish, using misinformation and a degree of
nonsensical violence against property and persons.
We expect
police officers who are also members of the public to act in a manner that they
believe they have the respect of all, they do not!
CommSmart
Global Group, a LexisNexis Risk Solution Partner believe firmly that Sir Robert
Peel’s Nine Peelian Principles stand firm today after 187 years of
existence. Of course, there are differences and the main one is the use of
technology alongside these principles.
That is why we will introduce the 10th Peelian Principle at
the conclusion of this series.
There lies a
massive improvement of the approval of the public, they have a direct link
without dialing digits. They hide behind a Smartphone or tablet/computer
screen and the dialogue is honest, deceiving and all with information that was
never there before.
Here lie CommSmart
Global Groups abilities to know all that is being said and stated via
social media with compliant social media monitoring, with crime/predictive
analytics and community crime mapping. This can be enabled within your
agencies now!
This, not
something that has just been invented and so new it is still in a ‘beta phase’,
we have 21 years of creating, refining and success, second to none.
What is our
difference and why we can bring back the Trust, Respect, and Honor
to policing is virtually simple, we converse, coach, mentor and
enable through our software, global databases all with full professional
services that work alongside you to fully understand the methods and you attain
results immediately and grow a whole new way of public interaction and
accomplishment.
Working hand
in hand with warranted and sworn officers in all departments, enabling
information at the fingertips on the street, improving officer safety.
Let us not
forget the important analyst who can share your information and glean even more
information to solve those crimes.
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CommSmart Global Group you Crime Link Analysis across the board with our
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Copyright
2016
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