Policing Practices and Operations

Policing Practices and Operations
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Introduction
Security remains a right of every citizen which must be provided by the government of the day. Successive governments have endeavored to ensure that their citizens enjoy maximum security. This they have they effectively done by putting in place security agencies which ensure that law and order is maintained. While this may seem easy and smooth sailing as it theoretically sounds, there are various challenges encountered. The discussion herein below will in a general scope will consider the various practices of policing and their operations. Of keen interest in the discussion will be the manner in which organizational structures within the traditional set up of policing interacted and related with each other. It will also be important to focus on the various patterns of communication within the agencies of policing. It will also be imperative to focus on the various trends in modern day society that function of policing has taken while seeking to establish the various ways in which the policing agencies have partnered with members of society.
Relationship of traditional organizational structures of policing agencies
Security, just like other agencies in society has come of age. There are a lot of changes that have taken place over time owing to the dynamism in the society. The organizational structures of policing agencies in the traditional set-up would interact at a most basic level. A couple of years ago, technology, which is now part and parcel of today’s, were not there. The interpretation herein is that the measures that the policing agencies have put in place. Due to lack of efficient tools, the agencies would more often perform damage control as opposed to preventive actions (Hess, 2013). There were different groups of agencies that were mandated with different duties. Some would be in charge of patrols only while others would be incharge of responding whenever there was breach of security. Those in charge of patrol were expected to communicate with those in charge of response. Yet, the means of communication were sometimes impaired. This means that the level of response offered by policing agencies traditionally was not as effective as they ought to be. The interaction between policing agencies was mainly that of dependence. There was not a single policing agency that was fully complete to effectively carry out policing work. The aspect of dependence brought led to slow response by policing agencies. There was also lack of responsibility and accountability as it was always easy to pass responsibility to the next policing agency (Cole, 2013). This trend has notably changed over time as policing agencies become of age.
Communication Patterns
The communication patterns both within the agencies of policing and outside have also seen improvements over time. As aforementioned, lack of integration with technology has been ...