Proactive Tactics

Proactive Tactics

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CheckPoint: Proactive Tactics

      There are several different proactive tactics that are used to make the everyday operations easier. Those tactics are decoy operations, stake out operations, and sting operations.   The decoy operation tactics are when an officer spends most of his shift undercover then they will be in uniform. This was an easier way to apprehend the criminals but without the criminal knowing the police are with him/her at that very moment. The police decoys could be anywhere; they could be your neighbors, your friends, the mail carrier or anything you can think of. When they are undercover they will have to wait until a command is given or the suspect commits the crime that they are investigating and then they move in and arrest him/her. This is a very good tactic to use, because it allows the police to get close to the suspect until it is too late for him or her to notice, because they are disguised as someone else.
      Now on to the second proactive tactic, which is called the “stakeout operations” Which is when an officer/officers set up surveillance around the suspects home, work, school and around any time around the day. The officers are also known to be there for hours and days while they are waiting for the criminal to do their crime, or do something that warrant’s their arrest. The stakeouts are very dangerous to the police and sometimes even the surrounding community when it’s taking place, because sometimes the criminals that they catch doesn’t want to be cause, which causes a gunfight or something dangerous to break out endangering the lives of the innocent. This is also important to the police department to use, so they could gather information about times, dates and who and whom are leaving and going.
      The third is sting operations. A lot of people have also been caught from online child pornography stings, where they go online posing as a child and setting up meetings to catch perverts.   They also do stings for...