Police Field Operations, Sixth Edition - Hardcover

Adams, Thomas Francis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131122967 ISBN 13: 9780131122963

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2003

Synopsis

The industry standard for 21st-century policing, Police Field Operations is written from the perspective of a working police officer, presenting real-life scenarios an officer is likely to encounter while on-duty. With its focus on community policing, it describes how and why certain procedures are used, and gives informative techniques from leading police academies from around the country. This fully updated edition covers the latest information on interviews and interrogations, arrest laws, search and seizure, and DUI laws. It gives the full range of skills a police officer needs to possess, by covering observations, perceptions, interviewing techniques, and crowd and riot control. Police communications, basic field procedures, traffic direction and enforcement, crimes in progress, reporting and records, and officer survival and stress reduction are all comprehensively addressed. Great resource material for those involved in police patrol procedures and police and field operations.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Police Field Operations has become a standard Criminal Justice text since its first edition, which was published in 1985. Many police departments have also used it as a sourcebook for promotional examinations up to, and including, captain.

The sixth edition has been completely re-written from cover to cover in an effort to assure the student and practitioner alike that the book reflects modern policing in the twenty-first century. It has been considered far better as a text and reference than all of its competitors, many of which have dropped by the wayside.

New to this edition:

• Special emphasis has been placed on the community policing aspect of law enforcement.
• Updated legal references
• The addition of the latest legal developments
• Expanded section on evidence and the collection of evidence and the elements of crime
• Expanded section on the laws of arrest and custody
• The report writing section has been updated and refined to include all the latest technology

The emphasis of this text is the day-to-day police operations, such as responding to calls for service, handling emergency and "routine" activities, and making arrests. Police Field Operations, Sixth Edition is right on the cutting edge of law enforcement today as the first edition was in 1985.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131122967
• ISBN 13: 9780131122963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 592