Police Deparment In A Police Department

Police departments are around the entire globe and people have different views about the police and their organization. The first police agency in the United States was established in 1838, the city of Boston, Massachusets few year later 1845 New York City tagged along and Newark in 1857. Police station or police deparment is a building which is meant to be the base or headquarter and accommodate police officers and other employees to do their duties. These buildings often contain offices and housing for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview or interrogation rooms.

How do police departments come to existance people would ask? Dr. Gary Potter writer and professor for Eastern Kentucky Univercity

In the police department they use a type of technique ir scheme to speak to each other and understand each other. A communication scheme in a police deprtment can include encoding, transmission, medium, reception, decoding and feedback. In a police department encoding is used to message what is trying to said with a disguise for other individuals not know. Transmission when the message to be delivered wheather its thriught radio, phone call, or email. Medium tell the officer how would he transmitt the message to understand the hidden language. Reception the one who the message is intended to in the agency. Finally the decoding is how the message is undertood, read and interpret. Feed back is reply to the message would go through the same processs but is not always done unless in need to do so if reply was not requested. Communicating properly give the agency an edge in many ways for people outside the agency do not know what is going on behind the closed doors and it’s a more effective way to attack the ones who break the

Two catagories are mentioned by Foster a primary and a secondary. Primary he mentions to be the patrol of a police departement as we would discuss in class he states the same the backbone of the agency is patrol. Secondary are what comes in or after patrol meaning investigation and youth. He adds on the support funvction of the organization structure the staff and auxilary or technical. Staff resonsibilities deal with recruiting new employees, trainers to train the new and to inftroduce new information to the ones already in the police force. The auxilary support responsibilty are to deal with jail, property, evidence, commmunication, and record stated Foster. He keep on writing in great law enforcement agencies strictly enforced policies and procedures exist and should be in all agencies. He describes polices being statements of expectations the agency require and procedures are how the intructions are done step by step. He also wriites the rules are towards behaviors and regulations a focus on