CCJ22: Introduction to Policing

Follow the instructions that have been uploaded.
Essentially a low-level crime problem is to be chosen (such as property damage/ assault/ theft/ break and enter/drug use or possession/etc). A policing strategy is then to be chosen to address this problem (such as rapid response/hotspot policing/POP/etc).

The crime problem must be local to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A good website is www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au . You need to justify why the problem needs a policing strategy applied to it, and then empirically justify the likelihood of the policing strategy being effective. APA formatting.
CCJ22: Introduction to Policing
Assessment Item 2 Feedback
Application of Operational Police Strategy
VP = Very Poor; P= Poor; A= Average; G= Good; E= Excellent
Student Name:
Criteria VP P A G E
Introductory paragraph; clear outline of the purpose and aims
of assignment.
PART I
• Identification and definition of crime/disorder problem
• Use of statistical data to discuss ‘urgency’ of
crime/disorder problem
• Description of relevant characteristics of crime/disorder
problem
PART II
• Identification of police strategy/ies
• Definition of police strategy/ies
• Description of key theoretical elements of police
strategy/ies
• Identification of steps involved in application of
operational police strategy/ies
• Use of research evidence to support elements of the
police strategy/ies
• Application of police strategy/ies to the crime/disorder
problem chosen
• Discussion of the validity and effectiveness of the
operational strategy/ies in respect to the crime/disorder
problem chosen
• Linkage between statistical analysis, characteristics of the
crime/disorder problem and operational strategy/ies
recommendations
• Use of research evidence and research findings to support
the operational strategy being recommended for
implementation
PRESENTATION, REFERENCING
• Referencing – eg. Appropriate/consistent APA
referencing.
• Presentation – eg. Well written, appropriate paragraph
structure, sentence length, word length.
Concluding paragraph; brief summary of the purpose and
aims of assignment.
Grade Awarded: _/40
20/04/2015
1
2002CCJ
Introduction to Policing
Assessment Item 2
Developed by: Dr Jacqueline Drew
Assignment Task
• You currently work
• as a sergeant in a suburban police station in a large
metropolitan region.
• Your supervising officer has indicated that you are being given the
opportunity to
• develop and implement an operational project
that
• addresses an ‘urgent’ crime or disorder problem
being experienced in your jurisdictional area.
• In order for the operational project to be supported you are required to
develop a written report that addresses the following criteria:
1. Choose a neighbourhood crime and disorder problem
2. Identify the operational police strategy
3. Apply the operational police strategy/ies chosen to the
specific crime and disorder problem being discussed
20/04/2015
2
First Decision
• Students are to select a crime or disorder problem in a neighbourhood
(e.g., break and enters, disorder, vandalism, graffiti, robberies, assaults)
• The crime or disorder problem is a low-level problem that is able to be
tackled by an operational strategy that is implemented by officers at a
suburban police station
• Your first decision is to decide on a crime and disorder problem
• What should guide your decision?
• Something that you are interested in learning more about
• Identification of relevant research that links the crime and
disorder problem to one of the police strategies you are to
choose
Second Decision
• Select a policing strategy from the lectures in Weeks 6 to 9
• Should you choose one or more policing strategies?
• As we have discussed, often one police strategy is unable to
fully address a particular crime and disorder problem
• Strategies to choose from:
• Rapid response policing; Patrolling (random patrol)
• Hot spots policing (including directed patrol)
• Third Party policing
• Community policing is an overarching strategy (will need to
identify specific types of operational strategies within
community policing, ie. Foot patrol; community meetings etc)
• Problem-oriented policing is a framework – it is a stepped
process of implementing an approach to crime/disorder
problems
• Application of POP requires a supporting strategy – particularly, in the
response phase.
20/04/2015
3
Criteria VP P A G E
Introductory paragraph; clear outline of the purpose and aims of
assignment.
PART I
?Identification and definition of crime/disorder problem
?Use of statistical data to discuss ‘urgency’ of crime/disorder problem
?Description of relevant characteristics of crime/disorder problem
PART II
?Identification of police strategy/ies
?Definition of police strategy/ies
?Description of key theoretical elements of police strategy/ies
? Identification of steps involved in application of operational police
strategy/ies
? Use of research evidence to support elements of the police
strategy/ies
? Application of police strategy/ies to the crime/disorder problem
chosen
? Discussion of the validity and effectiveness of the operational
strategy/ies in respect to the crime/disorder problem chosen
? Linkage between statistical analysis, characteristics of the
crime/disorder problem and operational strategy/ies
recommendations
? Use of research evidence and research findings to support the
operational strategy being recommended for implementation
PRESENTATION, REFERENCING
?Referencing – eg. Appropriate/consistent APA referencing.
?Presentation – eg. Well written, appropriate paragraph structure,
sentence length, word length.
Concluding paragraph; brief summary of the purpose and aims of
assignment.
Crime/Disorder Problem
• PART I
• Identification and definition of crime/disorder problem
• Use of statistical data to discuss ‘urgency’ of crime/disorder
problem
• You may not have crime data down to local level but you can
‘assume’ for the purposes of the assignment that the district
crime rates are crime rates for the smaller area
• Description of relevant characteristics of crime/disorder problem
• Type of offenders; types of victims of crime; types of places;
offender/victim relationships (if relevant)
20/04/2015
4
The Policing Strategy/ies
Part 2
Your report should include:
• a discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of the chosen
police strategy/ies;
• clear identification and discussion of the steps involved in applying
the operational police strategy to the specific crime and disorder
problem chosen;
• use of evidence sourced from empirical literature to critique the
validity and usefulness of applying the chosen operational police
strategy to the specific crime and disorder problem;
• an empirically justified critique of the likelihood of its
effectiveness in reducing the crime and disorder problem being
addressed
The Policing Strategy/ies
• The assignment is about you applying and policing strategy to a crime and
disorder problem
• Justify (using empirical literature findings, ie. Studies that have tested the
effectiveness of the strategy you have chosen in respect to the crime
problem you have chosen)
• WHY the police strategy is going to be effective in reducing the crime
problem
• Do NOT simply take a policing program (ie. use one single report that
that described the application of POP to a crime problem) and review
their findings
• You must use a range of literature sources and develop the
policing strategy for the specific community and crime
problem that you are addressing as a sergeant in a suburban
police station
20/04/2015
5
2002CCJ
Assessment Item 2
Application of a Police Strategy
• Format: Essay style; with paragraphs; intro and concluding
paragraphs; you can use headings
• Referencing: APA style
• Literature sources: Mostly journal articles (can be US, UK,
Australian etc…)
• Please proof-read your essay for spelling and grammatical
errors
• If you require an extension you must follow the CCJ extension
policy (see CCJ School website)

CCJ22: Introduction to Policing

Follow the instructions that have been uploaded.
Essentially a low-level crime problem is to be chosen (such as property damage/ assault/ theft/ break and enter/drug use or possession/etc). A policing strategy is then to be chosen to address this problem (such as rapid response/hotspot policing/POP/etc).

The crime problem must be local to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A good website is www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au . You need to justify why the problem needs a policing strategy applied to it, and then empirically justify the likelihood of the policing strategy being effective. APA formatting.
CCJ22: Introduction to Policing
Assessment Item 2 Feedback
Application of Operational Police Strategy
VP = Very Poor; P= Poor; A= Average; G= Good; E= Excellent
Student Name:
Criteria VP P A G E
Introductory paragraph; clear outline of the purpose and aims
of assignment.
PART I
• Identification and definition of crime/disorder problem
• Use of statistical data to discuss ‘urgency’ of
crime/disorder problem
• Description of relevant characteristics of crime/disorder
problem
PART II
• Identification of police strategy/ies
• Definition of police strategy/ies
• Description of key theoretical elements of police
strategy/ies
• Identification of steps involved in application of
operational police strategy/ies
• Use of research evidence to support elements of the
police strategy/ies
• Application of police strategy/ies to the crime/disorder
problem chosen
• Discussion of the validity and effectiveness of the
operational strategy/ies in respect to the crime/disorder
problem chosen
• Linkage between statistical analysis, characteristics of the
crime/disorder problem and operational strategy/ies
recommendations
• Use of research evidence and research findings to support
the operational strategy being recommended for
implementation
PRESENTATION, REFERENCING
• Referencing – eg. Appropriate/consistent APA
referencing.
• Presentation – eg. Well written, appropriate paragraph
structure, sentence length, word length.
Concluding paragraph; brief summary of the purpose and
aims of assignment.
Grade Awarded: _/40
20/04/2015
1
2002CCJ
Introduction to Policing
Assessment Item 2
Developed by: Dr Jacqueline Drew
Assignment Task
• You currently work
• as a sergeant in a suburban police station in a large
metropolitan region.
• Your supervising officer has indicated that you are being given the
opportunity to
• develop and implement an operational project
that
• addresses an ‘urgent’ crime or disorder problem
being experienced in your jurisdictional area.
• In order for the operational project to be supported you are required to
develop a written report that addresses the following criteria:
1. Choose a neighbourhood crime and disorder problem
2. Identify the operational police strategy
3. Apply the operational police strategy/ies chosen to the
specific crime and disorder problem being discussed
20/04/2015
2
First Decision
• Students are to select a crime or disorder problem in a neighbourhood
(e.g., break and enters, disorder, vandalism, graffiti, robberies, assaults)
• The crime or disorder problem is a low-level problem that is able to be
tackled by an operational strategy that is implemented by officers at a
suburban police station
• Your first decision is to decide on a crime and disorder problem
• What should guide your decision?
• Something that you are interested in learning more about
• Identification of relevant research that links the crime and
disorder problem to one of the police strategies you are to
choose
Second Decision
• Select a policing strategy from the lectures in Weeks 6 to 9
• Should you choose one or more policing strategies?
• As we have discussed, often one police strategy is unable to
fully address a particular crime and disorder problem
• Strategies to choose from:
• Rapid response policing; Patrolling (random patrol)
• Hot spots policing (including directed patrol)
• Third Party policing
• Community policing is an overarching strategy (will need to
identify specific types of operational strategies within
community policing, ie. Foot patrol; community meetings etc)
• Problem-oriented policing is a framework – it is a stepped
process of implementing an approach to crime/disorder
problems
• Application of POP requires a supporting strategy – particularly, in the
response phase.
20/04/2015
3
Criteria VP P A G E
Introductory paragraph; clear outline of the purpose and aims of
assignment.
PART I
?Identification and definition of crime/disorder problem
?Use of statistical data to discuss ‘urgency’ of crime/disorder problem
?Description of relevant characteristics of crime/disorder problem
PART II
?Identification of police strategy/ies
?Definition of police strategy/ies
?Description of key theoretical elements of police strategy/ies
? Identification of steps involved in application of operational police
strategy/ies
? Use of research evidence to support elements of the police
strategy/ies
? Application of police strategy/ies to the crime/disorder problem
chosen
? Discussion of the validity and effectiveness of the operational
strategy/ies in respect to the crime/disorder problem chosen
? Linkage between statistical analysis, characteristics of the
crime/disorder problem and operational strategy/ies
recommendations
? Use of research evidence and research findings to support the
operational strategy being recommended for implementation
PRESENTATION, REFERENCING
?Referencing – eg. Appropriate/consistent APA referencing.
?Presentation – eg. Well written, appropriate paragraph structure,
sentence length, word length.
Concluding paragraph; brief summary of the purpose and aims of
assignment.
Crime/Disorder Problem
• PART I
• Identification and definition of crime/disorder problem
• Use of statistical data to discuss ‘urgency’ of crime/disorder
problem
• You may not have crime data down to local level but you can
‘assume’ for the purposes of the assignment that the district
crime rates are crime rates for the smaller area
• Description of relevant characteristics of crime/disorder problem
• Type of offenders; types of victims of crime; types of places;
offender/victim relationships (if relevant)
20/04/2015
4
The Policing Strategy/ies
Part 2
Your report should include:
• a discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of the chosen
police strategy/ies;
• clear identification and discussion of the steps involved in applying
the operational police strategy to the specific crime and disorder
problem chosen;
• use of evidence sourced from empirical literature to critique the
validity and usefulness of applying the chosen operational police
strategy to the specific crime and disorder problem;
• an empirically justified critique of the likelihood of its
effectiveness in reducing the crime and disorder problem being
addressed
The Policing Strategy/ies
• The assignment is about you applying and policing strategy to a crime and
disorder problem
• Justify (using empirical literature findings, ie. Studies that have tested the
effectiveness of the strategy you have chosen in respect to the crime
problem you have chosen)
• WHY the police strategy is going to be effective in reducing the crime
problem
• Do NOT simply take a policing program (ie. use one single report that
that described the application of POP to a crime problem) and review
their findings
• You must use a range of literature sources and develop the
policing strategy for the specific community and crime
problem that you are addressing as a sergeant in a suburban
police station
20/04/2015
5
2002CCJ
Assessment Item 2
Application of a Police Strategy
• Format: Essay style; with paragraphs; intro and concluding
paragraphs; you can use headings
• Referencing: APA style
• Literature sources: Mostly journal articles (can be US, UK,
Australian etc…)
• Please proof-read your essay for spelling and grammatical
errors
• If you require an extension you must follow the CCJ extension
policy (see CCJ School website)