Outline of law enforcement
Overview of and topical guide to law enforcement
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to law enforcement:
Law enforcement – subsystem of society that promotes adherence to the law by discovering and punishing persons who violate rules and norms governing that society. Although the term may encompass entities such as courts and prisons, it most frequently applies to those who directly engage in patrols or surveillance to dissuade and discover criminal activity, and those who investigate crimes and apprehend offenders.[1]
Essence of law enforcement
Disciplines
Basis of law enforcement
The reasons law enforcement exists:
- Crime – breaking the law. Without crime, there would be little need for law enforcement.
- Law and order (politics)
Law enforcement agencies
Law enforcement agency (list) – government agency responsible for enforcement of laws. Outside North America, such organizations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police while some have other names (e.g. sheriff's office/department; investigative police services in the United States are often called bureaus (e.g. FBI, USMS, ICE, CBP, ATF, DEA, USSS etc.).[2][3]
- Law enforcement agency powers
- Types of law enforcement agencies
Law enforcement officers
Law enforcement by region
History of law enforcement
Law enforcement equipment
Law enforcement techniques and procedures
- Baton charge
- Body cavity search
- Crime analysis
- Crime displacement
- Crime mapping
- Criminal intelligence
- Crowd control
- Deadly force
- Defendo
- Dignitary Protection
- Door breaching
- Double tap
- Dragnet
- Forcible entry
- Immediate Action Rapid Deployment
- Lawful interception
- Mail cover
- Mozambique drill
- Pain compliance
- Police psychology
- Riot control
- Rough ride
- Search of persons
- Sobriety checkpoints
- Speed trap
- Traffic break
- Tueller Drill
- Use of force
Criminal investigation
Criminal Investigation – applied science involving the study of facts, used to identify, locate and prove the guilt of a criminal.[5] Modern-day criminal investigations commonly employ many scientific techniques known collectively as forensic science.
- Bait car
- Computer forensics
- Dawn raid
- Facial composite
- FBI method of profiling
- Hunting strategy
- Indictment
- Interrogation
- Manhunt
- Mug shot
- Offender profiling
- Police diving
- Police lineup
- Re-creation
- Search and seizure
- Stakeout
- Sting operation
- Strip search
- Surveillance
- Telephone tapping
- Vehicular accident reconstruction
- Warrant
