Saturday, April 26, 2008

Foot Patrols for Muskegon Police?

Gaza Strip - Crack'd Muskegon - What's this, two hour a day (no nights, you can be sure of that)foot patrols? Here in the Gaza Strip? (Probably not, Binky. Methinks the foot patrols may be downtown -soon to be known as "Metro-foot"- and strip mall parking lots - to be known as "Metro-food").

Tasmania has some interesting guildlines for policemen:
On the Beat...
General Duties...
Beat Patrol
Police officers are required to undertake regular beat patrol duties. They can expect to encounter and manage unacceptable street behaviour such as drunkenness, fights, damage to property, indecent or offensive language. Officers also attend to such reports as shop stealing, motor vehicle crashes, burglaries, and traffic offences. They provide assistance to the public and advice and guidance where required, helping in any way they can.

Mobile Patrol
Patrolling police officers are expected to be vigilant and observant to the possibility of crime, driving offences or street offences being committed. They are required to undertake duties focused on such priorities as reduction of crime, reduction of serious road traffic crashes, increasing safety within the community and reducing family violence. During their patrols, they frequently become involved in managing a very broad range of matters, including:

Assisting members of the public;
Undertaking public relations activities;
Establishing and being involved in community and police partnerships;
Attending street fights, hotel fights, drunken behaviour;
Attending motor vehicle crashes, “hooning” incidents;
Attending business/residential burglaries and stealing;
Attending all deaths, whether suspicious, natural causes or unexplained;
Coordinating searches for missing persons, concerns for safety of persons;
Detecting driving offences, particularly inattentive driving offences;
Attending reports of sexual assaults, serious and minor assaults;
Detecting drug and alcohol-related offences; and
Resolving family violence matters.

1 comment:

Nelson Neighborhood said...

Maybe they need to work on PR here in Muskegon?