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Lea 4 Learning Digest
Lea 4 Learning Digest
REGADO
AND MICHAEL JOHN RIVERA
Subject: LEA 4 (LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION AND PLANNING WITH CRIME
MAPPING)
Date of submission: APRIL 11, 2022
INTRODUCTION:
Police operation
- Refers to activities conducted by law enforcement officer as they “serve and protect”.
Police officers
- Have been view as law enforcement officers who keep the law from being broken and
apprehend those who break it.
Administrative Services
- Includes recruiting and training planning and research, records and communication, and
crime laboratories and facilities including police headquarters.
Field services
- Include patrol, traffic, community service and investigation.
Police Omnipresence
- Is referred here as the quality of making their presence known to the point of creating the
impression that they are still around hence preventing criminal to refrain from
committing an offense.
BASIC TYPE OF PATROL
Reactive Patrol
- Involves police officers responding to calls and investigating incidents after they
occurred.
Preventative Patrol
- Utilize marked patrol units and uniform officers that randomly patrol and are responsible
for service within a designated area to acts as a deterrent to future criminals.
MODERN PERIOD (17TH-19TH CENTURY) IN ENGLAND
Merchant police
- Own watchmen hired by merchants because the Charlies were ineffective.
Henry fielding in 1748
- The chief magistrate of “bow street runners” (thief catchers) who carry pistols, sabres and
truncheons.
Bow street horse Patrol
- Whose duty to patrol the main roads thus secure the travelers from highwaymen or
highway bandits.
William Pitt (1785)
- A British Parliamentary who propose the creation of the police in London.
Sergents de ville (servants of the city)- uniformed policemen who wore tall cocked hats, and
blue uniformed and carried canes in daytime and sabres at night
UNITED STATES
As an English colony, US follow the police system of its colonizer
1. Watch and Constable- suited in the north as life was more urban oriented
2. Sheriff system- observed in the south for the development was more rural because of
agriculture.
Night watch- was formed in Boston in 1636 watchmen was introduced in Philadelphia, a
system of obligated duty where citizen served as a “watchmen”
“leatherheads”- name of American watchmen because they wore varnished leather hats.
CONCLUSION:
I there for conclude that all of the learning that I learn from the start is the policing
system of the police in other countries how they handle all the crime and investigation specially
how they patrol on the streets using horse and their only foot patrol.