Police Officer
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A Police Officer is a warranted law enforcement officer of a police force.
- AKA: Police Agent, Constable.
- Context:
- They can (typically) perform Law Enforcement Tasks, such as crime-fighting.
- They can use Physical Force (including allowed lethal force).
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Security Guard.
- a Military Member.
- a Firefighter.
- a Social Worker.
- a Criminal Lawyer.
- See: Police Officer Ranks, Warrant (Law), Criminal, Crime, Police Oath, Arrest, Police Custody, Counter-Terrorism, Law Enforcement.
References
2015
- (Coates, 2015) ⇒ Ta-Nehisi Coates. (2015). “The Myth of Police Reform.” In: The Atlantic, Apr 15 2015.
- QUOTE: … There are many problems with expecting people trained in crime-fighting to be social workers. In the black community, there is a problem of legitimacy. In his 1953 book The Quest For Community, conservative Robert Nisbet distinguishes between "power" and "authority." Authority, claims Nisbet, is a matter of relationships, allegiances, and association and is "based ultimately upon the consent of those under it." Power, on the other hand, is "external" and "based upon force." Power exists where allegiances have decayed or never existed at all. “Power arises," writes Nesbit, "only when authority breaks down." … what it means to keep whole swaths of America under the power of the justice system, as opposed to the authority of other branches of civil society. … Police officers fight crime. Police officers are neither case-workers, nor teachers, nor mental-health professionals, nor drug counselors. One of the great hallmarks of the past forty years of American domestic policy is a broad disinterest in that difference. The problem of restoring police authority is not really a problem of police authority, but a problem of democratic authority. ...
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_officer Retrieved:2014-10-13.
- A police officer (also known as a policeman/woman, police agent, patrolman and constable in some forces, particularly in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth nations) is a warranted employee of a police force. In the United States, "officer" is the formal name of the lowest police rank. In many other countries, "officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank, and the lowest rank is often "constable". In many other countries there is no such title as "police officer", as the use of the rank "officer" is legally reserved for military personnel only and thus not applicable. Police officers are generally charged with the apprehension of criminals and the prevention and detection of crime, protection of the general public, and the maintenance of public order. Police officers may be sworn to an oath, and have the power to arrest people and detain them for a limited time, along with other duties and powers.
Some police officers may also be trained in special duties, such as counter-terrorism, surveillance, child protection, VIP protection, civil law enforcement, and investigation techniques into major crime including fraud, rape, murder and drug trafficking.
- A police officer (also known as a policeman/woman, police agent, patrolman and constable in some forces, particularly in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth nations) is a warranted employee of a police force. In the United States, "officer" is the formal name of the lowest police rank. In many other countries, "officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank, and the lowest rank is often "constable". In many other countries there is no such title as "police officer", as the use of the rank "officer" is legally reserved for military personnel only and thus not applicable. Police officers are generally charged with the apprehension of criminals and the prevention and detection of crime, protection of the general public, and the maintenance of public order. Police officers may be sworn to an oath, and have the power to arrest people and detain them for a limited time, along with other duties and powers.