![]() ![]() To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives. ![]() To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment. The principles which were set out in the ‘General Instructions’ that were issued to every new police officer from 1829 were: However, there is no evidence of any link to Robert Peel and it was likely devised by the first Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis (Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne). The couple works hard not to undermine one another's authority in front of their children.When saying ‘policing by consent’, the Home Secretary was referring to a long standing philosophy of British policing, known as the Robert Peel’s 9 Principles of Policing. She hoped no one would undermine her point by disputing the facts she presented. The principal undermined the teacher's authority by questioning her teaching style in front of her students. Many people feel that political contributions from special interest groups undermine the democratic process. Undermining is generally done through subtle means, like manipulation or underhanded comments. Undermine is generally used figuratively to refer to actions that weaken an abstract structure, like authority. To help you remember the definition for undermine, picture how mining under a structure would weaken its foundation. Weaken, corrode, soften, impair, thwart, undercut, tunnel, wreck ![]() To make something weaker, as if by tunneling under the foundation of a structure ![]()
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