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You are a sergeant in a police department that employs forty sworn officers and spends most of its time simply responding to calls for service. Your chief asks you to analyze the different roles in policing, including law enforcement, order maintenance, miscellaneous services, and convenience norms. On which of the four roles should your department focus the most? Discuss the factors that might affect your decision on which role to recommend.

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This solution provides a discussion of policing roles and which of them a particular department should focus on.

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Since the majority of the department's time and effort is predicated upon responding to "calls for services" it would be recommendable for the sergeant in this scenario to focus on miscellaneous services. These ...

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