What is profession? correct answers a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long
and intensive academic preparation
What is a Professional correct answers Someone in a calling considered socially superior to a
trade or handicraft
What requirements must a profession meet to be considered a profession? correct answers 1.
Posses a specialized body of knowledge through advanced education or training
2. Share commitment to serving public.
3. Share commitment to promoting common good
4. Share a professional creed or code of ethics that hold them and their colleagues to a higher
standard.
What are the characteristics of professionalism correct answers 1. Service to others
2. Assessment of client needs
3. Body of knowledge obtained through extended pre-service education
4. Standards of entry, practice and ethical conduct
5. Continuing education and lifelong learning
What is Police Legitimacy? correct answers means people have trust and confidence in the
police, accept the police authority, and believe officers are fair
How can Officers build public confidence? correct answers 1. Treating people with dignity and
respect
2. Making decisions fairly, based on facts, not illegitimate factors such as race
3. giving people "voice"
4. acting in a way that encourages community members to believe that they will be treated with
goodwill in the future
, What are the 4 Pillars of Procedural Justice correct answers 1. Fairness and Consistency
2. Giving Voice to ALL parties
3. Transparency
4. Impartiality
Describe Fairness and Consistency correct answers Not only driven by outcome but the process
its self, process of decision making matters the process of having a respectful conversation with a
community, members matters, and the process through which an outcome is arrived at matters
Describe Giving a Voice to all parties correct answers Allowing all parties involved to give their
side of the story.
Describe Transperency correct answers The decisions that are made do not rely on secrecy or
deception
Describe Impartiality correct answers making decisions based on relevant evidence or data rather
then personal opinions
What are the 8 advantages of the Professional model for law enforcement correct answers 1.
Public or client better served
2. Quality of peace officers is improved
3. Ethical conduct
4. More effective problem solving
5. Stronger community support and respect
6. Stronger role in the criminal justice system
7. More effective innovations
8. Financial rewards