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Criminal Investigation by Wayne Bennet This law enforcement textbook describes the basic responsibilities, techniques, and challenges related to the investigation of crimes. Chapters discuss investigations of specific types of crimes (violent crime, property crime, computer crime, gang crime) and offer instruction on investigative aspects like documenting the scene, searches, interrogations, and writing reports. The included CD-ROM contains interactive case scenarios.-SUMMARY Call Number: HV8073 .B43 2004 |
Police Field Operations
by Thomas Adams 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.-SUMMARY Call Number: HV8080 P2 A397 2004 |
Supervision of Police Personnel by N.F. Iannone This book offers complete coverage for leadership training of supervisors in law enforcement and allied fields. The relationships involved in individual and group management methods and the practical techniques for carrying out the various responsibilities of the supervisor are explored. Everyday problems faced by the police supervisor in interpersonal, operational, and administrative relationships with subordinates are also covered in detail. Chapter topics include the supervisor's role, and function in organization, administration, and management; leadership, supervision, and command presence; interpersonal communications; principles of interviewing; psychological aspects of supervision; employee dissatisfaction, grievances, and complaints; discipline principles, policies, and practices; tactical development of field forces; and conference leading. For the training of managerial and supervisory personnel in police departments and law enforcement agencies.-SUMMARY Call Number: HV936 S8 I2 2001 |
Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation by Barry Fisher Fisher (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department) identifies the proper ways to examine typical crime scenes and collect physical evidence for future prosecution of criminal suspects. The textbook is written in straightforward language accessible to the layperson, and provides numerous photographs, some in color. The seventh edition addresses chemical safety, terrorist acts, and the signs of elder abuse.-SUMMARY Call Number: HV8073 F49 2004 |
Reading People: The Unwritten Language of the Body (DVD)This video shows how to become a "people reader" attuned to non-verbal clues. Learn about paralanguage, eye behavior, cultural differences, touch, space, and time.-JACKET COVER Call Number: BF637 N66 R43 1998dvd (DVD circulating) |
Community Policingby Robert Trojanowicz Known as the "father of community policing," Trojanowicz (criminal justice, Michigan State U.) along with two co-authors discusses community policing in the United States. A sampling of topics includes the history of community policing, the fear of crime, principles of police administration, drug strategies, and challenges to the spirit of community policing. The volume also contains problem-solving case studies and profiles of community policing programs.-SUMMARY Call Number: HV7936 C83 T76 2002 |
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