Sir Robert Peel's Nine Principles Of Policing

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Sir Robert Peel is considered the founder of the modern-day police organization (Dempsey & Forst, 2016). His notion of the community and the police both having the responsibility of ensuring the safety of citizens and controlling crime, i.e. community policing, is instilled in today’s police work (Adegbile, 2017). Peel’s Nine Principles is the foundation in which law enforcement is built. His principles give guidance to police officers as to how crime can be controlled without the infringement of the citizens’ liberty (Adegbile, 2017). Therefore, all nine of his principles are of the utmost importance in policing. However, the second of Peel’s Principles is most important to myself. “The ability of the police to perform their duties is