1st Edition
Police Reserves and Volunteers Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness and Public Trust
Reductions in police department funding have raised the importance of volunteers in enhancing organizational performance, improving community trust and confidence, and at times accomplishing basic tasks to maintain public safety and security. During a period when police administrators are asked to do more with less, and to engage in smarter, community-oriented policing, citizen volunteers are an invaluable resource. Police Reserves and Volunteers is an invaluable primer for those looking to understand the benefits and challenges involved in the use of the volunteers within global law enforcement agencies.
Using cases from a range of specialists and precincts, this edited volume provides a rare window into police administration from the state legislation that regulates police reserves in California to the local models observed in many counties and cities across the United States. Police Reserves and Volunteers offers volunteers, local elected officials, and law enforcement straightforward guidelines to enhance police goals and build public trust in local communities.
Part 1: Introduction
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction: The Obvious Need for Volunteers in Policy
James F. Albrecht
Chapter Two: Volunteers in Policing in the USA
Robert Hanser, Mkay Bonner and Mark Johnson
Chapter Three: The Rewards and Challenges of Using Volunteers in Policing
Benjamin Dobrin, Adam Dobrin and April Christman
Part 2: Police Volunteer Programs in the USA
Chapter Four: Police Auxiliaries in Framingham, Massachusetts
Marc Spigel
Chapter Five: An Abundance of Auxiliary Police and Volunteer Personnel in the NYPD
James F. Albrecht
Chapter Six: The Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary
Steven Sheffer
Chapter Seven: The Portsmouth (Virginia) Police Department Auxiliary Unit
Ron Hyman
Chapter Eight: Civic Volunteerism in Orange County, Florida: Sworn Police Reserves in a Metropolitan Sheriff’s Office
Ross Wolf
Chapter Nine: Police Volunteers Can Effectively Impact Mass Casualty Incidents: The Aurora (Colorado) Police Department Faced the Challenge
James F. Albrecht
Chapter Ten: "Doing More with Less" – The Professional Model of the Los Angeles Police Department
Mkay Bonner, Mark Johnson and Robert Hanser
Chapter Eleven: Volunteering and Law Enforcement in the Carson City (Nevada) Sheriff’s Office
Colleen Morin and Robert Morin
Part 3: Police Volunteer Programs: Global Perspectives
Chapter Twelve: Auxiliary and Reserve Constables in Canada: Sixty Years of Community Service
Rick Parent
Chapter Thirteen: The Auxiliary Police in Hungary
Pal Kardos and Bea Szoke
Chapter Fourteen: Using Police Reserves to support the South African Police Service
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Chapter Fifteen: The Reserve Police Force in the Netherlands
Paula Torn and Ronald Verbiest
Chapter Sixteen: Effectively using Police Volunteers in the "Little Red Dot" – Singapore
Wayne Koo and Desmond Tan
Chapter Seventeen: Volunteer Policing in Israel
Charles Lieberman
Chapter Eighteen: A ‘Special’ Kind of Policing: Volunteer Policing in England and Wales
Carol Borland-Jones & Ross Wolf
Part 4: Police Volunteers and Other Deployment Options
Chapter Nineteen: The Police Community Service Officer in the United Kingdom: A Midpoint between Career and Volunteer Officers
Annette Crisp
Chapter Twenty: Part-Time and Reserve Law Enforcement: the Texas Experience
Nate Moran and Robert Hanser
Chapter Twenty-One: The NYPD’s Retiree Mobilization Plan: Keeping Retired Officers Active
Theresa Tobin
Part 5: Personal Reflection and Insight
Chapter Twenty- Two: The Enchanting and Captivating Story of an Essex (UK) Special Constable
George Cook
Part 6: Using Volunteers in Other Government Organizations
Chapter Twenty-Three: Using Volunteers in the Correctional System
Francis Olive III
Chapter Twenty-Four: Federal Government Volunteers: the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
Theresa Tobin
Chapter Twenty-Five: Volunteers in American Firefighting
Charles Jennings
Chapter Twenty-Six: Volunteers in Emergency Medical Service in the United States
John S. Young
Part 7: Conclusion
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Using Volunteers in Policing: Final Thoughts and Recommendations
James F. Albrecht
Biography
James "Jimmy" F. Albrecht is a professor of criminal justice and homeland security at Pace University in New York City. Professor Albrecht has 25 years of front-line law enforcement experience, and had previously held a number of executive positions including police chief of criminal investigations in the joint European Union/U.S. (EULEX) Police in Kosovo (former Yugoslavia). He retired as NYPD captain and regional commander after serving 22 years, which included direct response to the tragic September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. He received his Ph.D. in criminal justice at the University of New Haven (Connecticut).
