A Study On The Thought Of August Vollmer’s Police Professionalism

August Vollmer is the guider of the American police professionalization movement in twentieth Century.Under the influence of the British policing model and the police science theory,and combined with the problems existing in the police force of the United States,he formed the thought of police professionalism,mainly including the following six aspects: welldefined duties,the development of police education,the promotion of police recruitment standard,modern technology,community cooperation and centralized policing mode.It is clear that the role of the police is the prerequisite for the professional development of the police.The definition of the police duties should fully consider the police’s own opinions and be decided according to the needs of society.It cannot be decided by lawmakers and theorists alone;The significance of carrying out police education is that it can help the right people become good policeman.Police diploma education is not a simple pursuit of academic qualifications,but it focuses on the quality and ability behind academic qualifications;Raising the police recruiting standards is determined by the diversification of police duties and the diversity of required capabilities.The improvement of recruiting and selecting methods can achieve the matching of police qualities and job responsibilities;The use of modern science and technology is an inevitable choice for improving work efficiency and responding to modern crimes because criminals’ use of modern technology is always before the police;Community cooperation is an important work model that highlights the local orientation of the American police.the development of a centralized policing model is an important way to deal with crimes that cross modern jurisdictions and break the judicial boundaries which hinder investigations.Raising the individual quality of the police is the core of Vollmer’s professional thought.Other reform measures should be carried out around this core.What Vollmer wants to solve is how to recruit outstanding people into the police force and help them improve their policing capabilities in order to let them adapt to modern policing.The promotion of police recruitment standards,the development of police education and training,the use of modern science and technology,community cooperation and centralized policing are precisely for the purpose of improving the individual qualities of the police,innovating work patterns and working concepts,and breaking the barriers that prevent police from completing their policing duties.make the police perform their duties better.Judging from the development and changes of the world police revolution,the development trend from increasing the number of police,relying on science and technology,on the basis of science and technology and the core of high quality police also confirms the correctness of the thought of the professionalization of the police.This article sorts out the background,ideological and theoretical origins of Vollmer’s police professionalism thought,and based on this,it summarizes the content of the thought,extracts the guiding ideas,and finally tries to give some reasonable suggestions to China’s public security force professional construction.