By: Samantha Martinez
"As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is
to serve the community; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the
innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation and the
peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the constitutional rights
of all to liberty, equality and justice." ( International Association of
Chiefs of Police)
Ethics are the moral principles someone holds.I believe a
professional code of ethics should be implemented into your personal life if
you want to succeed in it.I never knew researching the code of ethics of my
field would benefit me so much. The statement above is only a small portion of
the code of ethics, but it holds a strong value to every officer now and the
future ones.The code of ethics of a police officer is actions needed to be
fulfilled every day on duty. It has informed me of the important values as a
future police officer I will have to accomplish. The code of ethics is very
straight forward and informative.Similar to the code of ethics I had in mind
before researching it. In my personal code of ethics, I know I have to fulfill
the duty of risking my life every day if needed so. I am pleased to become a
police officer so I can do what I always wanted to do.
Every police officer should know the code ethics before
becoming a police officer and if they don't ,they are informed of
it before taking oath.The code of ethics should become values a police
officer holds. In my opinion, I think the public puts a lot of pressure on
police officers. The news will usually show police officers wrong,instead
of the positive things cops have done for the community. One negative
action of one police officer puts a bad image on all police officers which
is very unfair. Corrupt police officers exist, but good police officers exist
also who do not get as much credit for their hard work.I do believe police
officers follow the code of ethics because it is their responsibility and if
they don't, they have to deal with the consequences.
Every police officer should follow the code of ethics.
If police officers want the public to trust them and for crime rates to
decline, they have to set a good example. I think people are well aware of the
code of ethics or similarities of what a police officer job is. That is
why the public is so quickly to point any mistakes the police officer
has made. Police officers cannot expect the public to follow the laws or do the
right thing, if they don't carry those messages out to the public by doing a
good job.
With law enforcement there is a pretty strict code of ethics, which most would agree is a good thing. There are however some fields with less cut and dry ethical codes like reporters where the saying "anything for a story." Do you think one of these codes is inherently better than the other or does it depend more on the field?
ReplyDeleteI don't think any code of ethics is better than the other, unless the person in the field sees a lot of cons about the ethic codes.
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