Instructions

Imagine that you were hired as the police chief for the Small Town police department. Small Town is a community of about 2,000 citizens in a rural area. Your police department consists of 20 sworn officers and 10 civilian support personnel. 

Talking to the citizens and assessing the citizen complaints and internal affairs files, you discover several ethical violations.

• While on duty, police officers attend to personal business such as shopping and dropping and picking up kids from school, resulting in longer response times to 911 calls.
• During lunchtime, patrol vehicles are parked at the same restaurant because the owner provides free lunches to police.
• An anonymous caller reported that Officer Frank racially profiles all minorities driving on Main Street on Friday nights. He stops only vehicles driven by Hispanics and African Americans, and then searches their vehicles without probable cause.
• Officers can work additional security details at the local high school football games. You examine the shift schedule and notice that Officers Hall and Jones signed up and are being paid for the detail at the high school football game, while also being paid for their regular patrol shift, thus double dipping on pay.
• You learn that the two narcotics officers are taking bribes from the local drug dealer to avoid patrolling the area when the drug deals are being made. 

Using your critical thinking and knowledge from this course, you present solutions to solve these problems and to transform the agency into an ethical law enforcement agency.

The assignment is three-fold: 

1. PowerPoint Presentation

• Create a Code of Ethics for all employees, sworn officers, and civilian personnel. Be sure to use the knowledge from the course, including all aspects of the acceptable ethical behavior of law enforcement officers. Consider the ethics system and ethical theories that you discussed in Week 1. 

1. Video

• Create a short video that introduces your code of ethics. The video should be about 3 minutes in length and contain the key concepts of your code of ethics. You may use technology to create and upload your video. 

1. Action Plan

• Design a 10 to 12-page action plan to implement the Code of Ethics. These elements are required for the action plan for the code of ethics:

  Ensure all personnel is aware of the Code of Ethics and the consequences of violations.
  Incorporate enforcement methods for violations of the Code of Ethics.
  Create a breach of violation of the code of ethics letter. Choose one of the unethical behaviors listed in the scenario as an example.
  Improve ethics training provided to the officers. Provide two options for ethics training, and then explain why you chose that type of training.
  Generate an assessment to measure the officer’s ethical behavior in the future. 

Length: 10-12 pages 

References: Include a minimum of five scholarly resources. 

There will be various occasions when the authorities’ ethics will be attempted, and it

depends upon the authorities not to let their own ethics to get slight all through their

employment. Various authorities become caught in conditions in which they should make moral

decisions to make and it again depends upon the ethics of that official whether the individual is

making the right decision or not (Brandl et al., 2002). Also, this choice assumes an indispensable

job and severe affect both of his work and private life.

General Philosophy

The part of police in a free society is the assurance of protected ensures, support of public

request, anticipation and concealment of wrongdoing, and obedient reaction to the requirements

of the network (Johnson,

2015).

Cops are responsible to the network for their choices. A high level of police work is done

because of resident objections, featuring the way that individuals from the general population are

a fundamental aspect of the criminal equity framework (Llyod et al., 2006). The achievement of

the criminal equity framework relies more upon resident interest than on some other single

factor. Public trust in the criminal equity framework depends to a huge degree on the trust that

individuals have in their police.

The residents rely on the police to accomplish and keep everything under control. We

draw our power from the will and assent of the residents whom we serve. Our endeavors are

established on the standards of administration and extreme obligation to people in general.

The objectives and needs which the Department builds up are resolved to a huge degree

by network wants. These wants are sent by the network and the administering body of the city.

The Department scrupulously endeavors to be receptive to these wants.

Code of Ethics and Conduct

All sworn cops must keep the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics and the Police Code of

Conduct as distributed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (Singhapakdi et

al.,1995).

Police Moral Code

Law enforcement personal basic responsibility is to aid humankind; to shield lives and

property; to ensure the perfect against shrewdness, the feeble against abuse or undermining, and

the quiet against savagery or tangle; and to regard their rights provided to them, considering to

circumstance and worth (Brandtl et al., 2002).

I will keep my shrouded life perfect as a representation to all, keep up striking calm

despite danger, scorn, or analysis; make tolerance; and be persistently mindful of the

administration help of others (Brandtl et al., 2002). Genuine in thought and deed in both my own

and authority life, I will be outstanding in consenting to the principles that everyone must keep

and the guidelines of my Department. Whatever I see or consider a masterminded nature or that

is trusted to me in my official cutoff will be kept ever mystery beside if the introduction is

fundamental in the introduction of my responsibility.

I will never act audaciously or award singular estimations, predispositions, hostilities, or

friendships to affect my decisions (Brandtl et al., 2002). With no tradeoff for bad behavior and

with resolute arraignment of punks, I will approve the law consciously and appropriately without

fear or favor, harm, or aggression, neglecting to utilize futile force or fierceness and never

enduring tips.

I see the identification of my office as a picture of public certainty, and I recognize it as a

public trust to be held since I am predictable with the ethics of police organization. I will

constantly try to achieve those objectives and convictions, submitting myself before God to my

picked calling law approval (Brandtl et al., 2002).

Police Code of Conduct

All cops must be totally aware of the ethical obligations of their position and should try

constantly to fulfill the most critical expected standards of master policing. The International

Association of Chiefs of Police trusts it significant that cops have clear exhortation and insight

accessible to help them in playing out their obligations reliable with these principles, and has

received the accompanying moral orders as rules to meet these closures (Johnson, 2015).

Key Obligations

A cop goes about as an official agent of government who is required and trusted to work

inside the law. The official’s powers and commitments are introduced by goal. The basic

commitments of a cop consolidate serving the organization, guarding lives and property, making

sure about the legit, keeping the congruity and ensuring the benefits of all to opportunity,

equalization, and value (Johnson, 2015).

Implementation of the Responsibilities

A cop will play out all obligations unbiasedly, without favor or love or hostility and

regardless of status, sex, race, religion, political conviction, or goal. All residents will be dealt

with similarly with politeness, thought and nobility.

Officials will never permit individual emotions, hatreds, or fellowships to impact official

direct (Singhapakdi et al., 1995). Laws will be upheld suitably and obligingly and, in doing their

obligations, officials will endeavor to acquire most extreme collaboration from general society.

They will behave in appearance and deportment in such a way as to move certainty and regard

for the situation of public trust they hold.

Discretion

A cop will utilize dependably the circumspection vested in his position and exercise it

inside the law. The guideline of sensibility will manage the official’s judgments, and the official

will consider all encompassing conditions in deciding if any lawful move will be made (Johnson,

2015).

The predictable and shrewd utilization of carefulness, in view of expert policing skill,

will do a lot to safeguard great connections and hold the certainty of the general population.

There can be trouble in picking between clashing blueprints. Remember that a convenient

expression of guidance as opposed to capture which might be right in suitable conditions can be

a more powerful methods for accomplishing the ideal end.

Use of Force

A cop will never use pointless force or violence and will simply use such force in the

arrival of commitment as is reasonable in all conditions. The use of intensity should be used

remarkably with the best limitation and essentially after discussion, trade, and impact have been

found to not be right or inadequate (Llyod et al., 2006). While the usage of intensity is rarely

unavoidable, each cop will stop pointless revile of torture or suffering and will never participate

in brutal, spoiling, or coldblooded therapy of any person.

Confidentiality

Whatever a cop sees, hears, or finds that is of a private sort will be remained calm aside

from if the presentation of commitment or authentic game plan requires something different

(Llyod et al., 2006). People from individuals as a rule hold a benefit to security and assurance,

and information gained about them must not be improperly uncovered.

Integrity

A cop will not take part in demonstrations of defilement or pay off, nor will an official

support such acts by other cops. The public requests that the uprightness of cops be

unquestionably sound. Cops must, accordingly, evade any direct that may bargain the uprightness

and along these lines undercut the public trust in a law requirement organization (Llyod et al.,

2006). Officials will not acknowledge any blessings, presents, memberships, favors, tips, or

guarantees that could be deciphered as looking to make the official forgo performing official

duties genuinely and inside the law (Johnson, 2015). Cops must not get private or exceptional bit

of leeway from their official status. Regard from people in general cannot be gotten; it must be

earned and developed.

Cooperation

Cops will support all legally endorsed workplaces and their representatives in the mission

for value. An authority or office may be one among various affiliations that may give law

necessity organizations to an area. It is essential that a cop help accomplice totally and absolutely

with regard and thought reliably.

Personal and Professional Capabilities

Cops will be answerable for their own norm of expert execution and will accept each

sensible open door to upgrade and improve their degree of information and capability. Through

examination and experience, a cop can gain a significant level of information and ability that is

basic for the productive and viable execution of obligation. The procurement of information is a

ceaseless cycle of individual and expert improvement that ought to be sought after continually.

Personal Life

Cops will carry on in a way that does not carry ruin to their offices or themselves. A cop’s

character and lead while off the clock should consistently be commendable, accordingly keeping

up a place of regard in the network in which the individual lives and serves. The official’s very

own conduct must be blameless.

Code of Ethics for Civilian Personnel

I will keep my shrouded life perfect as a representation to all; make tolerance and be

ceaselessly mindful of the administration help of others. Certified in thought and deed in near

and dear and authority life, I will be model in consenting to the principles that everybody must

follow and the rules of the Department. Whatever I see or think about a private nature or that is

confided in me in my official breaking point will be kept ever puzzle aside from if divulgence is

central for the presentation of my commitment.

Introducing the Code of Ethics

Brandl and Maguire (2002) prescribe dispatching and conveying the code to all partners

by sending it legitimately to all representatives, investors, providers, and clients. Subsequently,

the code of morals will be sent straightforwardly to every one of its workers, all the

representatives of the parent organization who are vigorously associated with the office, and

every one of its providers.

Brandl and Maguire (2002) suggest actualizing the code by consolidating it into the

preparation of new representatives and the expert improvement workshops for the organization’s

administration. They likewise suggest including moral classifications into the presentation

assessment, everything being equal, and, obviously, that the organization’s chiefs set instances of

moral conduct, mirroring the organization’s code of morals, for all different workers of the

organization. Subsequently, the code of morals will be consolidated into the preparation of its

new representatives and the expert advancement workshops for its administration. Moreover,

moral classes, from the code, will be consolidated into the presentation assessment, all things

considered. At long last, the pioneers will be entrusted with continually endeavoring to set

instances of moral conduct, mirroring the organization’s code of morals, for every single other

worker.

It is likewise imperative to take note of that, as per Brandl and Maguire (2002), more

viable moral preparing programs are those that give instances of moral issues that the workers

may really need to manage as a component of their particular positions. As it were, the data

introduced in moral preparing is bound to be perceived and used on the off chance that it is

explicit to the activity being performed. Subsequently, a vocation explicit, morals preparing

project will be created for the workers of, the Human Resources division.

Enforcing the Code

To start with, and chief, the Code of Conduct requires all representatives to report any

moral infringement that they witness. What is more, all administrators/supervisors reached about

moral infringement should instantly survey all reports of unlawful or deceptive lead. At last,

there is a zero-capacity to bear dangers or demonstrations of counter against representatives who

report moral infringement.

Likewise, Lloyd and de las Casas (2006) recommend that single direction to help

authorize a code of morals is to have a conventional grumbling methodology for the association’s

outer partners who have proof that the association is abusing its own code of morals. Thusly,

such a protest system will be set up at the division, with its key partners, to be specific its parent

organization and its providers, being educated regarding its subtleties and urged to utilize it.

What is more, Lloyd and de las Casas (2006) propose upholding moral consistence

through the appraisal by an autonomous gathering. To this end, at any rate one morals official

nine from the parent organization will be forever installed in code as an onlooker of the entirety

of its significant capacities and exercises and will be entrusted with revealing all watched moral

infringement back to the parent organization.

At long last, propose that moral requirement components are successful just when they

are upheld by sanctions (Lloyd et al., 2006). To this end, fitting disciplines will be created for

every infringement of the code of morals and will be heartlessly completed in all cases.

Assessing the Code of Ethics

Brandl and Maguire (2002) suggest assessing a code of morals utilizing a core interest

gathering, comprising of individuals from a cross-part of the association, both outside and inner.

Subsequently, the code of morals will be occasionally assessed for viability (and overhauled as

vital) utilizing a center gathering, which will comprise of a cross-part of workers, the network,

and the partners.

Securing Execution Success

Muel (2008) depicts seven requirements, the entirety of which, as indicated by him, must

be available in the association, if its code of morals is to be agreed to. His first condition is that

the organization’s code of morals must be obviously perceived by its chiefs and workers. While

his subsequent condition is that the organization’s chiefs must set a genuine model, of following

the code of morals, for every other worker.

Muel’s (2008) third requirement is that all the organization’s workers must be focused on

the association, its central goal, and targets. They should likewise relate to the association’s code

of morals and be focused on their work. The fourth requirement is pointed toward bringing up

that ridiculous presentation targets or absence of adequate methods for dependably doing

errands, frequently lead to the infringement of the code.

According to Muel’s the fifth requirement is that all infringement of the organization’s

code must be effectively noticeable (2008). At the end of the day, the conduct of the

representatives must be straightforward. While his sixth requirement is that all parts of the code

should consistently stay an effectively discussable theme; in order to evade the danger of

clashing translations of the code, make it simpler for everybody to share any moral issues, and

guarantee that violators of the code are rapidly and straightforwardly tested (Muel, 2008). At

long last, Muel’s (2008) seventh requirement is that the code must be authorized. It ought to be

clear, from a prior conversation under the rubric Authorizing the Code, that this condition will

obviously be met.

Code of Ethics Letter

Dear Officer Frank,

The department received an anonymous call reporting that you racially profile all

minorities driving Main Street on Friday nights. The caller stated that you only stop vehicles

driven by Hispanics and African Americans, and then search their vehicles without probable

cause.

This letter has been written regarding the events of racial profiling and searching vehicles

without probable cause on Main Street. These actions are in direct violation of our Departments

Code of Ethics. These violations are taken seriously as you break the trust within the community

that you serve.

In view of your activities, you are getting a composed admonition. On the off chance that

you are found to indeed be infringing upon the Departments Code of Ethics you will confront

extra disciplinary activity.

I have connected the Code of Ethics for your audit. You will likewise experience the

instructional class on morals. On the off chance that you have any inquiries regarding the

substance of this letter or the Code of Ethics, it would be ideal if you reach me.

Sincerely, Jacqueline Morris

Ethics Training

The department will provide two forms of ethic training: online courses and required

classroom training. These two forms of training were chosen as the classroom training will be

lecture, group activities and testing. This will allow everyone to discuss in a professional manner

the code of ethics. It allows for interaction between you and your co-workers.

The online training will allow everyone to sign on and complete the activities on their

own time. It also allows the individual the ability to make notes and print out the material that

they feel are important to them.

In closing, an inability to satisfy elevated requirements can harm your notoriety, lead to

long examinations, and could include conceivable indictment. A decent notoriety is a key aspect

of an organization’s business achievement. In a downturn, the danger of untrustworthy and

conceivably illicit lead increments. A code of moral business direct is the initial move towards

dealing with that hazard, yet the basic test is to insert moral qualities inside your organization’s

way of life.

References

Brandl, P., & Maguire, M. (2002). Codes of ethics: A primer on their purpose, development, and

use. Journal for Quality & Participation, 25(4), 8-12.

Johnson, C. E. (2015). Meeting the ethical challenges of leadership: Casting light or shadow (5th

ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc

Lloyd, R., & de las Casas, L. (2006). NGO self-regulation: Enforcing and balancing

accountability.

Muel, K. (2008). Living code: Embedding ethics into the corporate DNA. Sheffield, UK:

Greenleaf Publishing Ltd.

Singhapakdi, A., Kraft, K. L., Vitell, S. J., & Rallapalli, K. C. (1995). The perceived importance

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