Ethical Issues In Law Enforcement

There are two important areas in the profession of Law Enforcement which require officers to have Ethics and Character. These two areas instill in the society that criminals will be professionally processed in the justice system for their crimes. Police officers must develop a character and ethical reputation with the community. This means that while performing your duty as a police officer your testimony will be honored in the courts as will in society. When a person attends the police academy this training not only trains officers but it also reinforces their personal Ethics and Character. This is a must due to the overwhelming comments or situations reported that Police officers after training tend to forget their ethics and character when

Officer Mantha referred to his training at the Police academy which only focusing on ethics. He did not believe it is something that he or someone else can gain training. This area must be an attribute of ethical already being possessed. There is nothing that he or anyone else can acquire in a half day academy course. This course cannot change someone's ethics or their general personality type learned as a child. When Officer Mantha was hired there was so much effort in his hiring process which encompassing interviews, polygraph exams, exhaustive background investigations, and psychological exams. His hiring process had so much effort to ensure that he had the correct ethical, honest that the Police department was searching for in candidates. He further stated that ethics training is merely a refresher for the officers that they are required to a higher standard as police officers. He is already expected to honorably represent himself and the department at all times, during duty hours or while off duty.

Police Professions truly believes that police today have more ethical values than ten years ago. The forward progress shows that police ten years from today will have even more ethical than the present. We will always have the ones that will always have some unethical behaviors that will never be truly

Each state has there one requirement for the police academy. When he attended the academy his ethics and integrity course was only 8 hours. The statement that was used in class was that he would undergo intensive training in ethics and integrity. How intensive could 8 hours provide him was his argument to the fact that ethics must be an ongoing training process. His police officer training provided the basic democratic principles founded by our government of the police officer in society. He informed me that he would undergo further training in ethics during his time as the police department. The Police chief would hold quarterly training sessions on current trends ethic violations being committed by officers. The Police chief required all police officers in his department to attend not only that quarterly but yearly updated ethic training session mandated by the