Title: What are the 9 Principles of Policing?
Headings: What are the 9 Principles of Policing?
What are the 9 Principles of Policing?
The Nine Principles of Policing contend that:
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Content: The Nine Principles of Policing contend that: The basic mission of policing is to prevent crime and disorder. In order for the police to perform their duties, the public must approve of police actions. Police must have the public’s willing cooperation in obeying the law in order to win and maintain the public’s respect. The greater the level of public cooperation the less the need for the use of physical force. Police gain and keep public favor by constantly demonstrating absolute impartiality to the law, not by pandering to public opinion. Police use physical force to secure observance of the law or restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning isn’t sufficient. Police should maintain a relationship with the public that honors the tradition that police are members of the public who are paid to perform duties that are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare. In other words, the police are the public and the public are the police. Police should direct their actions strictly toward their functions and never appear to take over the judiciary’s powers.