Stress Producing Factors and Curbing Stress Reactions

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You are an environmental behavioral specialist for criminal justice professionals in the law enforcement field. The chief of police has asked you to review the seven-person undercover narcotics unit because there have been several internal affairs investigations involving excessive use of force, mishandling of evidence, and mishandling of informants. The chief knows the six men and one woman on the team and believes they are all good officers.

He uses them outside of narcotics work to make death notifications to families when someone dies in an accident or crime. He also knows they have been doing a lot of excessive drinking on the job and after work. They are highly productive in terms of quality cases and seizures of controlled substances, and they are working around the clock, on some cases 24 or 36 hours in a row. You must evaluate the situation and provide the chief with suggestions.

In a report to the chief of police, you will cite the findings of your research and observations with recommendations to the chief. Statements of fact in your presentation require that you cite the reference from which you obtained the information in the text of the paper and that the reference be included in your reference page. As always, your paper will be submitted in the current edition of APA format. No abstract is required because this is a short position paper, but a title page, reference page, and appropriate running header with page numbers should be included.

Assignment Guidelines

  • Address the following in 3–5 pages:
    • How does stress impact discretion on the part of the team members? Explain.
      • Select 2 areas of discretion for a narcotics team, and describe the possible temptations in these areas.
    • How could the additional assignment of death notifications affect members of the team? Explain.
    • How does the microcosm of the police agency insulate itself from the community? Explain.
      • How do special teams like narcotics or SWAT take this one step further? Explain.
    • How can overcoming the fight or flight syndrome lead to unnecessary heroics, putting the members of the unit in danger? Explain.
    • Identify 2 issues in the handling of social and professional relationships under stress conditions in the unit.
      • How can these issues arise? Explain.
    • How can racial and ethnic demographics contribute to bias in this type of unit? Explain.
  • Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

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Being an environmental-behavioral specialist, my job requires that I perform my
assigned duties with the sole purpose of ensuring the efficiencies and effectiveness. In
order to meet changing work conditions, I am required to perform a number of tasks with
flexibility. Data analysis, effective listening and good monitoring abilities are some of the
skills needed for efficiency. As an environmental-behavioral specialist in the law
enforcement field, my current assignment requires that I review a seven-person
undercover narcotics unit, consisting of six male and one female officer. This became
necessary due to the ongoing internal affairs investigations.
To begin with, the officers are often faced with stressful situations. First, they are
expected to socialize with the people they have to arrest at some point. The fact that they
have to be discrete during the whole operation is another challenge. One wrong move
could end up giving them away. Another emotional pressure they are faced with is that
they have to live under assumed identities for long periods of time. Fear of being
discovered only worsens the situation. The officers ought to be discrete while handling
their informants and also while handling evidence. In the area of handling evidence,
officers have a duty of infiltrating criminal organizations. They usually have a goal of
gaining the confidence of the investigated organization and thus they end up finding
themselves in a position where they are tempted to accept a bribe in return for their
tolerance of illegal transactions. This is a major temptation while trying to maintain their
cover. In another area where they are to handle their informants, the seven undercover
agents may become sympathetic, and end up offering protection rather than carrying out
their investigations.

UNDERCOVER AGENTS

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In my findings, I gathered that the officers are put at risk by being given added
duties. Sometimes the undercover agents have to take the responsibility of reporting
death occurrence to the affected families. This significantly affects their investigation
process. By availing themselves to deceased families they risk their cover being blown.
Also the fact that they are not provided with security while doing this only worsens the
situation. According to Levine (2007), operating extra assignments without close
supervision pu...


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