"Insider" patrol tactics you can start using right now to safely turn ordinary traffic stops into major felony arrests of drug couriers, gun traffickers and other violent criminals. Brings you step-by-step the rarely shared techniques of elite officers who are already producing spectacular results, while staying alive and legally unscathed. Once you learn the secrets of sensory pat-downs, deception detection, strategies for searches and single-officer self-defense, your vehicle stops will never again be the same.

Patrol objectives for the police officer and supervisory personnel, and routine patrol procedures. The uniformed officer who patrols the street is the 'hub of the constantly turning wheel of law enforcement.' the material is presented with the understanding that, although operational plans are standardized, the police officer must continuously exercise discretionary powers. Individual chapters discuss performance expectations and records utilization. It is stressed that these duties must be carried out accurately and objectively. Additional functions which are covered concern control and riot prevention, field interviews, and police community relations. Again, it is emphasized that there is considerable leeway for individual interpretation. Other chapters focus on the initial phases of crime investigation and planning for emergency calls (crimes in progress). This illustrated manual should be beneficial to introductory law enforcement courses or police training sessions. Each section includes exercises and study questions, suggested semester or term projects, and selected references.

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate police officers and what they do.

"Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life chronicles how local police and criminal justice systems intruded on gay individuals, criminalizing, profiling, surveilling, and prosecuting them from the 1930's through the 1960's. Anna Lvovsky details the progression of enforcement strategies through the targeting of gay-friendly bars by liquor boards, enticement of sexual overtures by plainclothes police decoys, and surveilling of public bathrooms via peepholes and two-way mirrors to catch someone "in the act." Lvovsky shows how the use of tactics indistinguishable from entrapment to criminalize homosexual men in public and private spaces produced charges brought forward and disputed by attorneys and evidence that had to stand before judges, who at times intervened against punitive policies. In Vice Patrol the author demonstrates how developments in the psychological, medical, and sociological handling of homosexuality filtered into police stations, courthouses, and the wider culture"--

This book provides the “how to’s” of police patrol, focusing on how officers on the front line perform their duties (covering both skills and techniques), meet day-to-day challenges, and manage the tasks and risks associated with modern police patrol. Drawing on theory, research, and the experience of numerous practitioners, it provides practical daily checklists and guidance for delivering primary police services: • Conducting mobile and foot patrols • Completing a preliminary investigation • Canvassing a neighborhood • Developing street contacts • Building and sustaining trust • Delivering death notifications, and more. It features interviews with frontline officers, as well as both police chiefs and supervisors to examine the role of police officers in the 21st century and their partnership with, and accountability to, the communities they serve. In addition, this book explores how modern policing has evolved by examining the research, innovation, tradition, and technology upon which it is based. It provides new perspectives and ideas as well as basic knowledge of daily practices, offering value to new and experienced police and security personnel alike; students in criminal justice, law and public safety; community leaders; and others involved in advancing police operations and community well-being.

Grab hold of this book that lets you steer a police car that's on patrol! The city is pretty quiet so far. But wait, a call is coming in! We need to chase after someone! Turn on the siren and steer around all these other cars! Put on your seatbelt and hit the siren-it's time to drive a police car! Kids will love using the die-cut handles in this novelty board book to control the police car and steer through the city around cars, through tunnels, and around traffic to catch the bad guy!

This textbook examines problems most frequently encountered by patrol officers, general principles for solution of these problems, and specific techniques proven effective in hazardous patrol incidents. An overview of the background, functions, and objectives of the patrol force is provided to delineate the scope of the individual officer's patrol function and the legal restraints placed on him. Other topics discussed include techniques of patrolling a beat, methods of observing, recording, and report police incidents, and preliminary investigative functions. Methods of making field contacts with pedestrians and handling police incidents involving vehicles are also suggested. In addition, a variety of non-emergency calls for service and tactics which have proved useful to officers in handling major crimes in progress are described in depth. A discussion of incidents involving hostages and survival techniques against attacks from ambush, firebombs, booby traps, and infernal devices is included, and unusual occurrences and some special problems of patrol are treated in detail. Review questions and practical problems for students to solve are included at the end of each chapter.