Learning Objectives and the Identification of Gaps in Knowledge

Module 1 lays the groundwork for Modules 2 and 3. As you enrich your knowledge of ethics and integrity, as well as the application of ethics in the field, you are able to engage in in-depth discussions with learners in your classroom as you serve as a Master Trainer.  To demonstrate the attainment of knowledge relative to the history of ethics and integrity, please consider the following objectives as they relate to police services:

1. Define ethics, integrity, duty and their application within the community policing environment;
2. Describe how the use of values, morals and ethics affect success when interacting with members of the community;
3. Determine whether new officers conform to a subculture of informal norms, traditions and practices that supersedes and compromises their adherence to their innate ethical behavior or to their previously learned behavior by describing the outcomes to each approach;
4. Explain the various ethical frameworks and their impact on an officer’s behavior when dealing with stakeholders internal or external to the police organization;
5. Explain why police officers, as well as the public, engage in behaviors they know to be wrong; and,
6. Explain how the public’s perception of an officer’s ethical or unethical behaviors affect police services.