Most sociological studies of the police tend to be concerned with aspects of their social control function in society. Few researchers have treated the day to day duties of the police as part of the performance of a work role. This study reports on the social activities performed by police and civilian personnel in a specific phase of police organization — the phone room. It is through these routines and practices that this aspect of police work is done. The study is based on observations made in the phone room of the Vancouver Police Station. Tape recordings were made of a number of calls. As an adjunct to observational data, interviews were held with members of the staff. Members of the community phone in to the police to report a variety of troubles. Staff, through their routine practices, select and work up from these calls, those which will be treated as "police business." "Police business" is thus viewed as produced by the routine practices of the phone room staff. This study examines some of these routine practices through which police business is accomplished. A section of this study deals with the kinds of callers staff consider are entitled to make a report because of their relationship to the event they are reporting; callers who stand in a special relationship to the police; and those features of the caller's account that police attend to in assigning the event described in the call to an administrative category. The police mandate to take action is discussed, and consideration is given to some of the organization factors that phone room staff take into account in exercising discretionary power to use that mandate. A final section deals with two typifications of people commonly made by phone room staff — "missing persons", and "crank callers." Phone room staff make these typifications based on their knowledge of the community and the exigencies of phone room work. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (M.S.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2001. / Thesis advisor: Stephen Cox. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Criminal Justice." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1999. / Typescript (photocopy). Vita. Abstract. Includes appendices. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-146).

Headlines of the sniper attacks were relentless for almost an entire month. During 22 days in October 2002, the snipers' killing spree injured three and killed ten people. The media converged on the story at a non-stop pace, and the public understandably was entitled to be alarmed. High-profile cases such as the sniper attacks draw a large amount of attention and, therefore, can become cases through which professionals and scholars alike can learn. The sniper incident is one such case that provides exceptional research possibilities. The style and unique dialogue used in news conferences grabbed the attention of the media, the public, and the criminal community. How did law enforcement use public relations to help in its case? What crisis plan did Montgomery County, Maryland, the lead investigating department, implement? The goal of this research was to examine the crisis management plan of law enforcement when tragic situations such as the sniper attacks occur, and further to investigate agenda-setting within law enforcement's media services departments. This research was conducted as a case study, using interviews with public information officers of law enforcement agencies and numerous media reports including newspapers, news magazines, and television news. Results from this case study revealed that communicating accurate information to both the media and the community in a crisis was a top priority. Additionally, it was shared that the public information officer's role is to be ready and on the scene of crises in order to disseminate precise information. In the sniper attack incident, law enforcement controlled the flow of information and, therefore, set the agenda for the media. Moreover, the Chief of Police, when he realized the enormity of the case, took on the role of spokesperson, because he did not want the PIO to bear the burden of responsibility.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1967. / Title from title page screen, viewed Aug. 6, 2004. Dissertation committee: Elwood F. Egelston (chair), Clayton F. Thomas, Richard E. Hulet. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-138). Also available in print.

Thesis (MTech. degree in Policing.)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2012. / The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996), prescribe Community policing as the style of policing to be adopted by the South African Police Service to meet the safety and security requirements of all people in the country. Fundamental transformation is therefore needed to ensure that the South African Police Service develops into a community-oriented police service which adopts a consultative approach to meeting the safety and security needs of the communities it serves, a service which therefore becomes more accessible and acceptable and more efficient and effective. Based on the philosophy of the establishment of community policing approach in South Africa and the time lag, one wonders if the cardinal objective has been met in terms of crime prevention, especially community and neighbourhood based ones as crime rate in South Africa appears to be on the increase. This study therefore investigated the impact of community policing approach on crime prevention in Eldorado Park Policing Area, specifically, the successes, failure and challenges facing community policing in the area where interrogated.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, Aug., 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oklahoma, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-80). Also available via the Internet.