Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: Police Patrol: The Backbone Of Policing -- Introduction -- Sketch of the police -- Development of police patrol -- Purpose of police patrol -- Differential Response -- Effectiveness of Police Patrol -- Reactive, proactive and coactive patrol -- Organizational features -- Types of police patrol -- Allocation of patrol personnel -- Special tactical teams -- Managing and supervising patrol activities -- Becoming a police patrol officer -- Training -- Summary -- 2: Police Field Procedures -- Introduction -- Preparing for the tour of duty -- Patrolling the beat -- Handling offenders -- Civil unrest -- High speed pursuits -- Weather and natural disasters -- Police canine -- Traffic stops -- Emergency vehicle operation -- Use of force -- 3: Police Operations In A Community Policing Environment -- Introduction -- Emergence of community policing -- Core components of community policing -- What community policing is not -- Incorporating community policing on the job -- Community policing and terrorism -- Does community policing work -- 4: Crime Scene And Preliminary Investigation -- Introduction -- Role of patrol in the preliminary investigation -- Initial steps in the investigation -- Photographing the scene -- Crime scene search -- Nature of evidence -- Types of evidence -- Evidence collection -- Cybercrime -- 5: Interviewing And Interrogation -- Introduction -- Principles of interviewing -- Field interviews/investigative stops -- Principles of interrogation -- Use of the polygraph and CVSA -- Human lie detector -- Law of interviewing and interrogation -- Voluntariness of a confession -- Nontestimonial evidence -- Immunity -- Art of listening -- Summary --

6: Handling Calls For Service -- Introduction -- Police service role -- Disputes -- Suspicious character calls -- Prowlers -- Missing and runaway children -- Missing adults -- Welfare checks -- Mentally Ill -- Homeless population -- Abandoned vehicles -- Stalled vehicles -- Directing traffic -- Lost property -- Stolen property -- Repeat calls -- Citizen contacts -- Summary -- 7: Forensics -- Introduction -- Duties of a forensic scientist -- FBI Forensic Laboratory -- Crime scene -- Body fluids -- Fibers -- DNA -- Questioned documents -- Fingerprints -- Firearms -- Digital evidence -- Collection and preservation of DNA evidence -- Summary -- 8: Legal Constraints That Impact Police Operations -- Introduction -- Searches -- Warrant clause of the fourth amendment -- Exceptions to the fourth amendment -- Arrests -- Exclusionary rule -- Civil liability -- Use of force -- Summary -- 9: Police Reports And Other Correspondence -- Introduction -- Field notes -- Report writing -- Chain of custody reports -- Special reports -- Writing styles -- Computerized reports -- Recording witness recollections -- Records -- Testifying in court -- Summary -- 10: Police Communications -- Introduction -- Police language -- Radio communications -- Telephone communications -- Special communications issues -- Computer systems -- Data communications -- Computer networks -- Summary -- 11: Gangs And Drugs -- Introduction -- Gangs -- Hispanic gangs -- Female gangs -- Indian country gangs -- Outlaw motorcycle gangs -- National gangs -- Focus on drugs and alcohol: some definitions -- Drug enforcement -- Drug legislation -- Alcohol related offenses -- Solutions to drug and alcohol abuse -- Drug testing of police officers -- Gangs and drugs -- Summary -- 12: Police Operations In Culturally Diverse Communities -- Introduction -- Changing demographics -- Skeletons in the closet -- Contemporary problems -- Police-minority relations today -- Dangerous traits and behaviors -- Improving police-minority relations -- Culturally competent police officer -- Hate and bias crimes -- Summary -- 13: Crime Mapping And Analysis -- Introduction -- Crime analysts -- Crime mapping -- Should crime information be made public? -- Does hot spot patrolling simply cause crime to move around the corner? -- Hot spot theories on crime -- Summary -- 14: Handling Terrorism And Natural Disasters -- Introduction -- Terrorism and the police officer -- War on terrorism -- Terrorism alerts -- Assessing terrorist threats -- Anti-terrorist and disaster recovery agencies -- Bomb threats -- Hostages -- Summary -- 15: Ethics And Police Operations -- Introduction -- What is ethics? -- What constitutes ethical behavior? -- Ethics as a restriction on behavior -- Kantian ethics -- Moral development -- Values -- Law enforcement values -- Lying and deception -- Off-duty employment -- Internal affairs unit -- International Association of Ethics Trainers -- Summary -- Glossary -- Index -- Photo credits.

From the Publisher: This text covers major areas of police field operations. Included in this text is coverage of the following current, critical issues: patrol, investigations, crime mapping, police operations in culturally diverse communities, community policing, persons with physical disabilities, juveniles, hot pursuit issues, communications, gangs, drugs, and more.