DIFFERENT MODELS

OF POLICING
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 • 1. Policing by consent

The Peelian principles summarize the ideas that Sir

Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force.
The approach expressed in these principles is
commonly known as policing by consent. In this model
CLASSIFICATION of policing, police officers are regarded as citizens in
BASED ON uniform.
LEGITIMACY OR
LEGAL BACKING They exercise their powers to police their fellow
OF POLICE citizens with the implicit consent of those fellow
FUNCTION citizens. “Policing by consent” indicates that the
legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is
based upon a general consensus of support that
follows from transparency about their powers, their
integrity in exercising those powers and their
accountability for doing so.
 • The goal is preventing crime, not catching criminals. If
the police stop crime before it happens, we don’t have to
punish citizens or suppress their rights. An effective
police department doesn’t have high arrest stats; its
community has low crime rates.

3 CORE • The key to preventing crime is earning public support.

Every community member must share the responsibility
of preventing crime, as if they were all volunteer
IDEAS members of the force. They will only accept this
responsibility if the community supports and trusts the
police.
• The police earn public support by respecting community
principles. Winning public approval requires hard work
to build reputation: enforcing the laws impartially,
hiring officers who represent and understand the
community, and using force only as a last resort.
 1. CLASSIFICATION BASED ON LEGITIMACY OR
LEGAL BACKING OF POLICE FUNCTION

• 2. Policing by law
2. Classification based on Command structure

• 1. CENTRALIZED
• A system where there is only one police force that is recognized and
operates entire a certain country .
• Shall mean a police system in which there is a national police agency or
police institution which is centrally commanded and controlled through a
vertical chain of command and such police institution has unlimited
jurisdiction throughout the territory of the country.
2. Classification based on Command structure

• 2. DECENTRALIZED
• A police system wherein police administration and operation are
independent from one state to another .
• It is more applicable to countries with federal government.
2. Classification based on Command structure

• 3. Single /singular