Police state democracy 31/31/2024 Every three- or four-year period, they received an automatic promotion up to the rank of police chief. Comparative Policing: The Struggle for Democratization (M.R. Within this period, cadets received theoretical training in areas of police practices such as: introduction to law, penal law, criminal law and procedures human rights weapons training police tactics and techniques intelligence gathering anphysical training, self-defense (martial arts), and crowd behavior.Ĭadets who completed four years of training and passed all the exams graduated as police sergeants, who are appointed to any part of the country and to any police department or unit. The length of training at the Police Academy was four full academic years. The head of the Police Academy held the title of president, which was the second highest rank after the general director of the TNP. There was only one Police Academy located in Ankara. The Turkish Police Academy was the equivalent of Police Staff College in the United Kingdom or police universities in some other countries. While the TNP by the end of the twentieth century represented one of the most progressive police forces around the world, in 2015 its status and professional approach deteriorated in a rapid and worrisome manner that culminated with the closing of the Police Academy in Ankara and its prestigious advanced degree program. A review of the Turkish National Police (TNP), which recently lowered its standards, is included to show the direct correlation between a weakening democratic government and the immediate lowering of standards for police professionalism. This comparative overview will focus on five other countries each one represents, or represented in the past, at least one desired feature that needs to be highlighted in order to understand the grim state of affairs in American policing. How can a profession represent one of the pillars of democracy, especially when this foundation pillar is so weak? No other democratic country allows for such abysmal standards. Furthermore, the local training is left to the purview of the state commissions that frequently allow for the bare minimum of mandatory basic training and very little, if any, in-service professional development. The majority of the local law enforcement agencies in the United States do not disqualify candidates with prior criminal records, prior drug use, or an incomplete high school diploma. Over 13,000 local law enforcement agencies in the United States represent an array of abysmal standards for recruitment and selection and attest to a very dark feature of the American police profession. These commonalities, and what we are so profoundly deficient in, are high standards for recruitment and selection. The different modalities of policing in democratic countries around the world have one thing in common, one that is absent from the overwhelming number of law enforcement agencies in the United States. To understand the causation of this phenomenon, it is instrumental to look at this profession from a comparative angle. Nowadays, no other police force around the world, counting the democratic police forces only, faces as much criticism as the law enforcement organizations in the United States. While it is extremely rare to hear much complaint about the educational standards embedded in the legal profession, and the professionalism of its members is rarely challenged in the court of the public opinion, it is more than frequent to hear criticism directed at police organizations around the country and the world, and also against the individual members of the so noble profession. The legal profession should be seen as yet another pillar of this societal consensus that is predicated on guardianship of human rights, justice, and liberty. When asked to write about comparative policing for Human Rights, the first thing that came to mind were the principles of democracy and how policing as a profession should be viewed as one of the foundation pillars of a democratic government. Policing is a profession I devoted my professional life toand enjoy writing about.
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