Reflection Piece on the Foundational Areas of Communication

Reflection Piece on the Foundational Areas of Communication

My future, I'm hoping, involves police work in one way or another. Whether it`s being a constable, detective or military police. The fact that I want to work in this kind of occupation makes me feel these three areas will benefit my future. Those three would be language, personality and culture.

In policing language is important to have whether it`s talking to your boss, colleagues, or civilians. When you talk to your boss you normally act in a very formal and very professional, but with colleagues you may possibly act in a very peer to peer oriented setting. Another situation you're faced with as a police officer is talking to the public. Depending on who the person is you are associating with will depend on how your body language, and vocabulary. When you`re talking to children you show them that you are a person to look up to and who will protect them. When you are dealing with a teenager or young adult the way you act and socialize with them will be different; as well, you may sort of ``scare`` them by saying the amount the fine could be and may spend the night in jail. The way you act with everyone depends on how they receive and act upon your arrival or how you acting around them. With the language you use it also defines your personality.

In the business of policing your personality will make you or break you. When you walk into your first class of Police Foundations your teacher will evaluate you whether the professor knows it or not. When you walk in to your first interview they call your references and past teachers how your teachers remember you are going to make a big impact on your success. Police officers also need to have a good set of morals when doing their jobs in the community. Law enforcement officers need to uphold the law in order to enforce it, so police officers must have a strong sense of right and wrong and generally exhibit and encourage good behaviour to the public. This sense of right and wrong and the desire to do good in the community is perhaps the most important trait a police officer needs to have.

Policing, as an occupation, has often been described as hours of boredom, followed by minutes of sheer terror. In any occupation where such extremes exist, it is necessary to have cultural characteristics which reinforce the collective and impersonal nature of the work. Cultural characteristics