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“Nature of Police Work”

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 (271 days 12 hours ago.) Viewed 32 times.

In Police work, officers are involves ninety percent of the time handling small disturbances dealing with no criminal matters. Incidents, which police officers, do not enforce. The other ten percent deals with calls involving serious incidents.  

Police work involves protection of life, safeguarding property through vigorous patrol techniques, enforcement of laws and ordinances in the Cities for which the Police Agency is responsible. The job needs officers to posse's characteristics involving dedication to the profession.  Not all people in Police work are there for the same reason. There are many reasons given by officers why they seek this line of work.

Officers who are out in the street, during their tour of duty are combat officers. They are the first's line of defense between the criminals and the citizens of the community. During their tour of duty, unexpectedly they may well be in a crisis without any warning. These officers are who respond to call for service, and during down time, do police work while looking for reported trouble areas.

On a routine day, officers can go for hours without responding to any major emergency incident. Forcing officers to do aggressive patrols looking for criminals. During these times, is when unexpectedly everything turns upside down. In many case getting officers seriously injured where some die as result of their injuries.  One moment all is calm and peaceful, the next may have bullets flying every direction.

Officers receive specialized training in various fields such as Police Community Relations, School Officers, Field Training Officers, through advance education, needed by their departments. Police officers receive special assignments in plainclothes involving investigation dealing with drugs, or intelligence gathering for future missions. 

Police officers are concern with call, which needs them to be skillful in their field of expertise, which is the way; they can achieve status within their peers group. Police work involves the responsibility for performing various routine police assignments.

They usually consist of routine patrol in emergency police cars, Bicycle, Motorcycles, Horse Mounties, Marine boats, and on foot patrol. Some believe Police work is just like in the movies, where the Cops near the end of the movie always catch the bad-guy. They think they can walk away with the catch prize, the leading woman in the movie, and some even try to get rich by doing illegal acts.

This only happens in the movies. In reality, bad-guys usually escape and caught days latter. In addition, the officers return the next day to their routine mundane police work.

The work involves danger needing the officer to act without direct supervision and exercise independent judgment in meeting emergencies. Supervisors issue assignments review work methods and results through reports, conduct employee inspections and discussion to their officers.

Uniform Police Officers, patrol appointed areas in Cities in police cruiser to preserve law and order, to prevent and discover commission of crimes, and to enforce traffic laws. Answer calls for service, complaints involving disturbances. They perform the preliminary investigations in the zones assigned before given to the Detective bureau for follow-up and final determination. They testify in court as professional witness.

At any crime, scene officers are mandate by law to perform first aid, when there is an injured person while waiting for rescue, conduct the preliminary investigation, gather evidence of the crime, safeguard the evidence, get witness, and make arrest.

By using specialized investigative procedures, Field Combat Officers are the first responders to calls for service involving the following:

  • Burglaries
  • Domestic disturbances
  • Grand Theft
  • Homicide
  • Missing People
  • Robberies
  • Sexual Battery (Rape)
  • Traffic Accidents

Basic needs for Police Officers:

  • Communicate in writing, and speak effectively
  • Emotionally stable
  • Free from any physical deformity
  • Skillful with the assigned departmental firearms
  • Good general intelligence
  • Have a high degree of agility for the job
  • Never convicted of a crime
  • Pass a physical medical examination
  • Pass a psychological examination
  • Pass an evasive polygraph examination 
  • Posses good physical strength
  • Posses people skills
  • Posses a High School Diploma or Equivalency

Needed Skills:

·         Bilingual

·         Microsoft Excel 2000              

·         Microsoft Outlook                   

·         Microsoft Word 2000


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“Basic Creole for Police Officers”

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 (272 days 11 hours ago.) Viewed 74 times.

Communities throughout the United States and other countries are now realizing that Police agencies are closing the linguistic gap, which causes difficulties in communication between Police Departments and citizens. By motivation and creation of incentives, agencies are now having large number of Police officers seeking linguistic courses to be more effective when responding to calls involving different speaking groups.

It is a difficult task, for Police Officers who work and patrol areas of Cities populated by different ethnic groups that speak different languages. If the officers do not know how to communicate with the citizens, it makes their job almost impossible.

It is always desirable for Supervisors to assign officers who can understand and speak the language, which is more common in the area they work.  For them to serve the community as needed, they must have a working knowledge of the language.

Not understanding what people are saying when officers arrive at disturbances is frustrating. In most communities where there is a large portion of the population, which holds on to their native ways by communicating in their own language, can be a problem.

Most Police Agencies throughout the country have known for many years how important it is for officers to be bilingual. Not just in the United States, but other countries as well are now realizing it and are setting linguistic sessions so their officers can be skillful when dealing with different groups.

Therefore, in using a portion of the population for example, Creole-speaking citizens, it would be most proper to have Police Officers trained in basic terms in Creole to help them communicated with the citizens in the community. This will make the officers more confident of their skills making them more effective in performing their job satisfactory.

The following are some basic terms and phrases useful for Police officers who are working Haitian communities:

DAYS OF THE WEEK: 

English:                                                                         Creole:

Sunday,                                                                                               Dimanch

Monday,                                                                                              Lendi

Tuesday,                                                                                              Madi

Wednesday,                                                                                        Mekredi

Thursday,                                                                                            Jedi

Friday,                                                                                                 Vandredi

Saturday,                                                                                             Samdi

MONTHS OF THE YEAR:

English:                                                                         Creole:

January,                                                                                               Janvye

February,                                                                                             Fevriye

March,                                                                                                 Mas

April,                                                                                                   Avril

May,                                                                                                    Me

June,                                                                                                    Jen

July,                                                                                                     Jiye

August,                                                                                               Out

September,                                                                                          Septanm

October,                                                                                              Oktob

November,                                                                                          Novanm

December,                                                                                           Desanm

NUMBERS: 

English:                                                                         Creole:

0 – Zero                                                                                               0 – Zewo        

1 – One                                                                                               1 – En 

2 – Two                                                                                               2 – De

3 – Tree                                                                                               3 – Twa          

4 – Four                                                                                               4 – Kat           

5 – Five                                                                                               5 – Senk

6 – Six                                                                                                 6 – Sis

7 – Seven                                                                                            7 – Set

8 – Eight                                                                                             8 – Wit           

9 – Nine                                                                                              9 – Nef           

10 – Ten                                                                                              10 –Dis           

11 – Eleven                                                                                         11 – Onz        

12 – Twelve                                                                                        12 – Douz      

13 – Thirteen                                                                                       13 – Trez        

14 – Fourteen                                                                                      14 – Katoz     

15 – Fifteen                                                                                         15 – Kenz       

16 – Sixteen                                                                                        16 – Sez         

17 – Seventeen                                                                                    17 – Diset       

18 – Eighteen                                                                                      18 – Dizwit    

19 – Nineteen                                                                                      19 – Diznef

20 – Twenty                                                                                        20 – Ven        

21 – twenty-one                                                                                  21 – Venteyen

22 – Twenty-two                                                                                22 – Vennde

23 – Twenty-three                                                                               22 – Venndetwa

24 – Twenty-four                                                                                24 – Nenndekat

25 – Twenty-five                                                                                25 – Venndesenk

26 – Twenty-six                                                                                  26 – Venndesis

27 – Twenty-seven                                                                              27 – Venndeset

28 – Twenty-eight                                                                               28 – Venndewit

29 – Twenty-nine                                                                                29 – Venndenef

30 – Thirty                                                                                          30 – Trant

40 – Forty                                                                                           40 – Karant

50 – Fifty                                                                                            50 – Senkant

60 – Sixty                                                                                            60 – Swasant

70 – Seventy                                                                                       70 – Swasantdis

80 – Eighty                                                                                         80 – Katreven

90 – Ninety                                                                                         90 – Katrevendis

100 – One-hundred                                                                             100 – San

101 – One-hundred-one                                                                      101 – San-en

102 – One-hundred-two                                                                     102 – Sande

200 – Two-hundred                                                                            200 – Desan

300 – Three-hundred                                                                          300 – Twasan

400 – Four-hundred                                                                            400 – Katsan

500 – Five-hundred                                                                            500 – Senksan

600 – Six-hundred                                                                              600 – Sisan

700 – Seven-hundred                                                                          700 – Setsan

800 – Eight-hundred                                                                           800 – Wisan

900 – Nine-hundred                                                                            900 – Nefsan

1000 – One-thousand                                                                         1000 – Mil

COMMON EXPRESIONS DURING THE DAY: 

English                                                                          Creole

Yesterday,                                                                                           ye

This Morning,                                                                                      maten – a

Now,                                                                                                   konnye – a

This Afternoon,                                                                                   apre – midi - a

Today,                                                                                                 jodi – a

Tonight,                                                                                               nan nwit – la

Tomorrow,                                                                                          denmen

This Evening,                                                                                      a – swe - a

Last Night,                                                                                          ye swa

Last week,                                                                                           semen pase

Last Month,                                                                                        mwa pase

In the Morning,                                                                                   nan maten

In the Afternoon,                                                                                nana premidi

In the Evening,                                                                                   a swa

FAMILY MEMBERS;

English:                                                                         Creole: 

Grandfather,                                                                                        gran pe

Grandmother,                                                                                      gran me

Father,                                                                                                 papa

Mother,                                                                                               manman

Brother,                                                                                               fre

Sister,                                                                                                  se

Grandson,                                                                                           pitit pitit

Granddaughter,                                                                                   pitit pitit

Fiancι,                                                                                                 fiyanse

Bride,                                                                                                  la marye

Bridegroom,                                                                                        le marye

Husband,                                                                                             mari

Wife,                                                                                                   madanm

Children,                                                                                             to mou yo

Son,                                                                                                    pitit gason

Daughter,                                                                                            piti fi

Daughter – in – law,                                                                            bel fi

Brother – in – law,                                                                              bofre

Sister – in – law,                                                                                 belse

Stepfather,                                                                                          bofe

Stepmother,                                                                                         belme

Relatives,                                                                                            fanmi paran

Aunt,                                                                                                   tant

Uncle,                                                                                                  tonton

POSSESSIVES;

English:                                                                         Creole; 

My,                                                                                                      pa – m

Your,                                                                                                   pa – ou

His,                                                                                                      pa – 1

Hers,                                                                                                    pa – 1

Ours,                                                                                                   pa – nou

Theirs,                                                                                                 pa –yo

 

DESCRIPTIVE ADJETIVES: 

English:                                                                         Creole:

Bad,                                                                                                    pa bon, move

Good,                                                                                                  bon                 

Young,                                                                                                jen

Old,                                                                                                     vie

New,                                                                                                   nef

Big,                                                                                                     gro

Small,                                                                                                  piti

Pretty,                                                                                                 joli

Ugly,                                                                                                   led

Skinny,                                                                                                meg, deplimen

Fat,                                                                                                      gra

Tall,                                                                                                     ro

Handsome,                                                                                          elegant, biyen kampe

Short,                                                                                                  kout

Dangerous,                                                                                          danjire

 


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