In the 21st century, one can believe that law enforcement has become strong enough to eradicate the bad influence in society to make it peaceful but the growth in electronic gadgets and internet use has told us otherwise. Every other day, you will see social media platforms dominated by news that tells us the horrors happening in our society.
All these stressful and unusual circumstances have contributed to active debates about the uncertainty of the future.However, people don’t know that engaging with stressful news daily will affect them in many ways. That is why, as a member of society,you have to take some wise steps to handle challenging situations and help the professionals who confrontadversity as their job, i.e., Law Enforcement officers.
According to the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, “There are now more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers serving in the United States,the highest figure ever.” All these officers are the first to step up to help society, even after knowing the risks associated with law enforcement. Law enforcement officers are the spine that protects the community from bad influences. They serve as a catalyst that moves society’s peace through their effort.
These officers serve many essential roles in the communities.The integral duties of law enforcement officers have been explained below;
- They are needed to maintain law and order
Law enforcement is a vast department where the collective goal of all these officers is to maintain law and order in the communities and society. For example, take traffic police, they are responsible for carrying out the rules made for the roads to minimize lower chances of accidents.
- They save lives
Law enforcement officers not only exist to look after law-and-order situations. They also prevent life-threatening crimes and are trained to look after the victims of violence. In addition, they are prepared to administer emergency medical care;if a person is involved in a car accident and an ambulance takes too long to arrive, they are responsible for looking after the victim’s life.
- Assist in crisis and support others
There are police officers who usually find themselves in problematic situations where they have to act as a counselor or a friend to people who are too miserable to handle adversity. The officer in law enforcement also helps people make better life choices in the future. That is why every officer in law enforcement is trained in crisis management. This makes police officers capable of defusing difficult situations before turning them into potentially life-threatening confrontations.
- Encourage making strong communities
The officers working in Law enforcement have a unique sense of solidarity with their fellow men like officers, community leaders, peers, and even medical professionals. This helps them in creating a solid network of a community. In addition, the officers are seen to be supportive of misled individuals,which is one of the reasons why the public respect them.
Law enforcement officers’ presence is essential for orderly, safe, supportive communities.Numerous officials think the community’s peace is more important than anything; one such officer is Anton Iagounov.
Iagounov was passionate about music since childhood;however, somewhere between that time, he decided to make his career in law enforcement. It happened when he experienced working undercover in the State of Nevada, obtaining witness statements from sexworkers at a Nevada legal brothel, and gathering correctional intelligence at Nevada’s Ely State Maximum Security Prison as a Correctional Officer, where he learned of the DEA’s involvement with political corruption which implicates public officials at the center of the organized crime, sex trafficking of children, and the murders of law enforcement officers and federal witnesses.That is why in 2015,he started his new job as a security officer to help reduce the filth of society.
To push the officers like Iagounov, we mustrecognize and respect the critical role these officials play. It is one of the many ways to show them how much their efforts and sacrifices are appreciated.