Team Policing: A Selected Bibliography

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National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 1976 - Team policing - 33 pages

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Page vii - Those entries that include a stock number can be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents; Government Printing Office; Washington, DC 20402. Be sure to include the stock number on the request. For example: . Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. A Guide to Improved Handling of Misdemeanant Offenders.
Page 2 - ... predict the long-range effect and the future of this kind of training. It is suspected that there will be more laboratory training time allotted all over the country, especially as the techniques and methodologies begin to build toward their potential and a momentum is generated. It seems apparent that the challenge that faces team policing and laboratory training in the near future is to pool the techniques and resources in all of the related training programs, and forge from the collective...
Page 4 - Chapter 1 is a summary of current knowledge about neighborhood team policing and a description of what the authors believe would be an ideal neighborhood team policing system. Chapter 2 describes the neighborhood team policing programs of several police departments. Subsequent chapters suggest procedures for planning and implementing neighborhood team policing, administering an ongoing program, providing training and education, and establishing lines of authority and methods of supervision of neighborhood...
Page 5 - Appendices include suggested operational guidelines, a format for team commander reports, a model proposal to obtain Law Enforcement Assistance Administration action funds, a case study of one team in New York City, a way of organizing a referral guide for use by police officers, and a description of a training program implemented in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Page 3 - In theory, the patrol force is reorganized to include one or more quasi-autonomous teams, with a joint purpose of improving police services to the community and increasing job satisfaction of the patrol officers. Usually the team is based in a particular neighborhood. Each team has responsibility for police services in its neighborhood and is intended to work as a unit in close contact with the community to prevent crime...
Page 1 - ... is still in its infancy, but some idea of how men are using that experience on the job is beginning to emerge. Laboratory training seems to get translated into work situations in two basic ways, and it may be helpful to think of these as "levels". Level one is the hard edged use of techniques, which means the direct translation of a technique displayed in the laboratory to some aspect of the work environment. Level two is the meta-learning or functional awareness level where values that are focused...
Page 10 - Patrol (CTP). a variant or neighborhood team policing, in certain parts of that city. The goal of the experiment was to determine whether the CTP system could improve the department's investigative and apprehension operations. The two teams consisted of about 30 patrol officers plus six detectives, all responsible to the patrol team commander.
Page 9 - Blues") in the same area had been able to clear no more than 13 percent. [Raymond Forer, and Ronald A. Farrell, The Impact of the Neighborhood Police Unit on the Arbor Hill Community of Albany. New York (Albany, NY: Office of the Crime Control Coordinator, 1973), 27-29, 35.) Similar success was reported for the Venice, California team: "(Wlhile in the control area crime statistics remained relatively stable, team crime statistics have been reduced dramatically. (Example: burglary down 53 percent...
Page vii - To obtain documents listed in this bibliography, see instructions on the following page. Many of them may be found in local, college, or law school libraries. A list of the publishers' names and addresses appears in the Appendix.
Page v - It is broken down into three basic sections. Part I contains selected references to literature that provide an overview of team policing programs or discuss the theory underlying team policing approaches. Part II lists literature that concerns tactical, non-community-based team programs.

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