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Myth and Reality during an Era of Police Accreditation in the United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Myth and Reality during an Era of Police Accreditation in the United States./
Author:	St. Hilaire, Jack.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	276 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-04A(E).
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10790933
ISBN:	9780438696426

Myth and Reality during an Era of Police Accreditation in the United States.
St. Hilaire, Jack.

Myth and Reality during an Era of Police Accreditation in the United States. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 276 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2018.

A qualitative study on the strategic decision processes in law enforcement by examining the reasons why law enforcement executives in the United States choose to either participate or not to participate in national police accreditation, known as CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies), for their agencies. Police accreditation was introduced into the United States as part of an overall strategy to raise the professional status of law enforcement agencies by standardizing operating procedures. In 1979, through support from the U.S. Department of Justice four major professional police associations, the International Chiefs of Police Association (IACP), the National Association of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA), and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), created a national accrediting body for the police, CALEA. CALEA subsequently established national police standards for law enforcement agencies in the United States which have continually evolved over the years.

ISBN: 9780438696426Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

Myth and Reality during an Era of Police Accreditation in the United States.
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