Part 1
The police work efficiently with collaboration with the public thus; the police are the public. They nurture and build a positive relationship with the public. Police are paid in return to give total time attention to duties that are to serving each and every citizen according to interest of the community existence and welfare. For efficient operation of preserving the order, detect offenders, and prevent crimes they must form a partnership with the public thus improving the quality of existence and community’s safety (Broadhurst & Davies, 2009: 56). This contributes to promotion and preservation of public order.
Police enforces and uphold the law thus to maintain the peace in a country. Since they are empowered by the statutory laws and amended laws to carry out their duty. This comprises power of detention and arrest. In hand with this, they enhance stolen property are recovered and returned to the identified owner, and ensure prompt returned.
In traffic they ensure safe and orderly movement of vehicles to regulate traffic on roads and highways. They enhance the responsibility for traffic laws which means developing driver knowledge of the causes of traffic accidents and observance with the traffic laws. They also appropriately give warning, or arresting traffic law violators. Also defends public properties such as railways, roads and essential installations and their establishment (Nucleolus, 2004: 43). Police also protect public properties against violence, any attack or acts of vandalism.
Police records and find out all cognizable offences coming from their complaints. They provide a copy of the first information report to the compliant, if appropriate, to detain offenders leading to prosecution of offenders. This creates and maintains a sense of security in the community since they prevent conflicts.
The police also gather information relating to intelligence matters affecting the public such as terrorism, social offences and the national security relating matters. They publicize them same to all concerned agencies; in addition police act on them appropriately. The police motivate, train and ensure the welfare of the police personnel.
In social responsibility of the police; ensure that they assist and guide members of the public, mostly the senior citizens in the government, children and women, the poor and mentally and physically challenged individuals. Also stabilizes conflicts between communities, political groups and classes since they are governed by the principles of the human rights rules.
The main tasks of the traffic police is to control traffic direction. These try to solve the problems on the roads of the human survival. Police Traffic Control Unit main purpose is to protect roads users. They also regulate speed on the roads. Although some of the drivers notice enforcement activities and most of them slow down when seeing a police check points. For the offenders they receive a speeding ticket or a warning (Deflem, 2004: 24).
The traffic police also conduct vehicles searches; since terrorists and criminals may try to avoid police check points. Through the initial impressions by the vehicle and the passengers may give a guide to the integrity. Traffic police are trained for operation of searching procedures. For instance, if the face of the driver and the occupants is tensed and nervous it suggest guilty.
The most and effective police departments are the police traffics, since almost all offenders and terrorists use roads network and communication; this increases competence of traffic police. The traffic police enforce traffic laws which regulate crimes and enhance security of the public. Through the police check points, vehicle searching reduces insecurity in a country.
In knowledge of law enforcement system, traffic police enhances control of issuing the driving licences, technical inspections and registration of all motor vehicles that are on the roads. They are guided and driven by the laws since the traffic departments are linked to the government. They also control the function of the driving schools thus enhancing safety behaviour on the public roads (Siegel, 2005: 87). Some of the law tasks and competencies include; they issue driving the licences for the qualified instructors and teachers of the traffic rules. They also implements control over the respect of the driving schools’ laws.
Part 2
As they say experience is best teacher being a police it is really required. Physical strength is also required for performance of some tasks that may require significant strength and physical stamina. For appropriate members they are required to undergo mental psychological fitness test. Since they are required to be mental toughness and mind to be present (Dixon, 1999: 77). The personality and the background are evaluated and investigated for all the candidates. In addition to the requirements need, the candidates undergo drug test and medical fitness since they are required a free from drugs candidate.
Police are required to have correct vision and hearing ability. They are required to have high quality mental skills such as teamwork and cooperation, information seeking and community awareness among others. Although these qualities are gain in the training it is advantageous to have them during hiring process (Hills, 2009: 46). These help them in coping with their day to day functions. Therefore, in order to be competent in the field of policing, I have to be good at such skills. However, it is not just a vision and hearing ability should help me in this field but correct and quality skills on these two senses.
The achievement of enforcement is dependent relative on its ability to create threat to road users. The effect on road user behaviour may be reduced by applying some of the enforcements although they are expensive in use of the short-term intensive.
Since police play a key role in our state, there are needs to improve the performance and police’s role in serving the society. The policing can be improved by improving accountability and effectiveness. It is significant for the police to be in a policing system that enjoys public confidence (Walker, 2007: 53). There should be a body in the police departments that receives serious complaints against the policemen so that they can determine the way forward in enhancing accountability. This is because without the public trust on the policing sector efficiency cannot achieved and the police roles may not be implemented effectively.
Since the professionalism is a critical and fundamental requirement in policing department, the professionalism needs to be boosted by introduction of various functional specialisations. The investigative policing should be differentiated from the “watch and ward” police function. The introduction and embracement of the modern technology is also significant in improving the police professionalism (Sheptycki, 2000: 78). The modern technology is very effective since the police are in a position to develop standard criminal investigation practices. The modern technology in this case is represented by use of internet, social network and GPS, and modern policing equipments among others
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