Policing and Security

This essay discusses governance and security ethics for the police service, focusing on criminal courts, police inspectorate organizations, and coroner courts. It explores the role of these mechanisms in maintaining peace and reducing crime in society.

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Policing and Security
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Introduction
The following essay aims at governance and security ethics for the police service. All the
police officers and employees of police service should follow the guidelines from the
government of their countries. It is duly important since they have to maintain all the security
ethics i.e. needed for governing the country in a better manner. It is also significant for reducing
the events of crime in the society as well (Froestad and Shearing 2016). Three mechanisms that
are chosen for proper governance and security ethics are coroner’s courts, criminal courts and
police inspectorate organizations. All employees of police service should abide by these policies
so they can create a better society. The ways the legal frameworks are implemented will be
helpful to understand security ethics. All the ethical issues related to ensure security of common
people by police officers concerns with security ethics.
Criminal courts
The criminal courts of all countries are needed to be secured properly since all types of
miscreants like thrives, robbers, murderers and anti-socials are kept in the lock ups or prisons
(Elfes and Birch 2015). On the other hand, these criminal courts should also take up the
responsibility of providing justice to innocent people and punish offenders at the maximum. All
these crimes should be analyzed through its nature by police officers and should find the proper
way to solve the cases. Criminal cases should always be dealt with first priority by these police
organizations.
It is their role to evaluate how effectively they can cope up with these issues. The police
administrators are responsible for tracking down the movements of these criminals and catch
them red handed to give them the punishments (Keane and Bell 2014). The primary role of

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police is to stop crime and prevent common innocent human beings from becoming victims of
crimes like rape, murder, enslavement of women and children in particular, torture, sexual
slavery and apartheid (Elfes and Birch 2015). Security mechanisms in Australia will deal with
these issues proactively to ensure better operations to reduce the amount of crimes within the
society.
All state and territorial courts will have to abide by all rules. The police service has to
implement these acts and arrest criminals to ensure they get effective punishments for their deeds
(Froestad and Shearing 2016). The Australian Federal Police are entrusted upon this
responsibility of finding all offenders and take them for trial in judiciary courts (Shearing and
Johnston 2013). They are empowered to arrest these offenders on the basis of supportable
evidence. If any police officer is found guilty of being engaged with these crimes, trials will be
held for them as well (Sabel and Zeitlin 2012).
Police inspectorate organizations
The police inspectorate organizations are important bodies for ensuring proper security
across the provinces in all countries. In Australia, there are eight police inspectorate
organizations that look after all the issues in the country (Andrade 2016). These police
inspectorate organizations are Police Association of South Australia, Western Australia Police
Union, Police Association of New South Wales, Australian Federal Police Association, Northern
Territory Police Association, Police Association of Tasmania, The Police Association Victoria
and Queensland Police Union. These police unions will look after how the security mechanisms
will operate in challenging situations. Higher authorities of these police organizations will seek
the requirements from police officers if they need to use the updated technological devices. The

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governance and mechanism of policing responsibilities can be upgraded through proper
negotiating activities between police security mechanisms and unions. The police officers are
entitled with supreme powers so that they can take care of all the issues with best tackling
powers (Bowling and Sheptycki 2012).
The police service is a very strong law enforcement agency that looks after the well being
of the society and makes sure that everything goes well. These are autonomous bodies that have
the responsibility of protecting rights of people. They also have the powers to take strict actions
against top government officials if they are found to commit any serious legal mistakes. The
different kind of employees who work under this inspectorate organizations are top level police
officers, protective service officers and non-sworn support staff who are appointed in different
parts of the country and overseas as well (Bowling and Sheptycki 2012). These officers always
make sure that all laws are applied within their jurisdiction and they should not let anyone to be
harmed by social miscreants (Froestad and Shearing 2016). The inspectorate organizations are
also liable for welfare support for the underprivileged people in the society.
Coroner courts
The coroner courts are also very important government agencies or mechanisms that look
after proper governance of the country. The coroner courts investigate the causes of death within
their jurisdiction. Police officers have the liability of taking the corpses of unknown persons to
coroners (Keane and Bell 2014). Then these coroners take the blood samples and investigate into
the reasons for unnatural deaths.
Many times it has been discovered that dead bodies of unknown persons are found in the
isolated regions of their jurisdiction. If local people find these bodies in jungles or isolated roads,

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they report it to nearby police stations. Then these police officers have to come and take those
bodies to coroner. In this scenario, coroners have to find out the actual reasons of death (whether
it was an accident or a murder) and identify the actual identity of those persons. The coroner is
responsible for carrying out proper investigations into this case of unnatural death of dead person
being found (Keane and Bell 2014). If police officers do not perform their duties effectively, it
will surely create fear in the minds of commoners in the region.
The judges of the coroner court will affirm the reasons for death and then inform police
about it. They can also check if there are any fingerprints of any other person on the bodies of
those persons (Bowling and Sheptycki 2012). Amidst this situation, further investigations will be
carried out as a part of security ethics. These jurisdictional investigations will ensure civilians of
the region that they are safe and police forces are always ready to protect them.
Conclusion
In the concluding section, it can be said that governance mechanisms that have been
discussed are accountable for maintaining peace in the society. Policing strategies are dependent
on the improvement of these mechanisms a lot. Police officers cannot fulfill their duties if they
do not get the needed support from these parties. Proper support from these governance
mechanisms will help police officers to fulfill their responsibilities effectively.
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