Law Enforcement
Ethical Systems
Crime Control
Discretion and Law Enforcement
Discretion and Corruption
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.
In this final week, we will apply the concepts reviewed in this course to the law enforcement function. For this week’s discussion, consider the following questions, with the ethical systems in mind.
Is it ethical for detectives to deliberately use deception during an interrogation? The Supreme Court has ruled that deceptions are legal, but are they ethical? If so, identify under which ethical system police would be permitted to use deception as an interrogation technique.
All police agencies make use of informants. Larger departments even pay their informants and keep track of their contributions to cases. Discuss the ethical problems of using informants to assist with investigations.
Informants provide police officers with valuable information that can help solve crimes. However, they also present a number of ethical challenges; one such challenge is confidentiality – do informants have a right to expect their identity remain confidential? Additionally there is potential risk that informants operate outside bounds law acting undercover agents corrupting process due lack oversight measures placed upon them (Stojkovic et al., 2014). The effectiveness incentives received depend overall integrity persons involved any resulting repercussions should carefully weighed against benefits obtained interested parties when discussing matters related such practices over time frame set initially outset tasks allocated concerned parties alike .
Overall then while the use deception and informants both form core parts investigations conducted by law enforcement , it remains clear that careful consideration must taken into account ensure ethical standards met all times . Taking into account various socio economic political issues surrounding particular areas focus pay attention easy access information sources possible addressing concerns raised stakeholders before putting plans action prove invaluable terms organisational success long run . By doing so executives increase chance success being achieved end desired outcomes reached accordingly