Introduction
In this essay I will address the topic "The science of the police", from the perspectives of Roberto Van Mohl, where we will analyze in a general and clear way the political phenomenon that is a subject of great interest to the public administration.
The science of the police was that discipline whose teachings were intended to prepare statesmen and public officials to understand how the power of the state could be increased and its internal forces increased.
The objective of this essay is to analyze one of the fields of knowledge that public administration has, namely: The science of the police.
Development of the topic
Robert Von Mohl, was the last great cultivator of the old German science of the policey. The romantic culture assimilated the polytheía, transformed it into politics and inherited it to the European languages like police, police, policey and policy, respectively in Spanish, French, German and English.
For his part, in the mid-18th century, Juan Enrique Von Justi, said that the policy voice had two meanings: one strict and the other broad. The strict includes everything that can contribute to the happiness of citizens, and mainly to the preservation of order and discipline, the regulations that aim to make life more comfortable, to provide them with the things they need to survive. The broad sense, is understood under the name of police, the laws and regulations that concern the interior of a State, that try to sign its power, to make good use of its forces, to procure the happiness of its subjects; in a word: commerce, finance, agriculture, the discovery of mines, lumber, forests, etc. Considering that the happiness of the State depends on the intelligence with which all these things are administered.
Carlos Juan Bonnin, explained that: It is easy to know that the police in question is not that political inquisition the work of absolutism, a monster fed and trained with a particular predilection for European monarchies. He understood that the administration is the one that forms the action properly of the State, embraces everything that constitutes the relations of the administered with the State, within the interest of the social order.
In the Middle Ages, the notion of police was defined as "the good order of civil society presided over by the state authority, leaving the good moral and religious order in charge of the ecclesiastical authority." Later, during the fourteenth century, the word police appeared, which was used to designate the order of public affairs in the legal doctrines of France.
Thus, come the Renaissance, the term "police" came to be understood as "good order in the common thing."
The State could use coercion to seek the common good, under the total discretion of the sovereign, all without legal limitations, so this way of understanding the police law led to absolutism.
The science of Police: It is the set of systematically and methodologically ordered knowledge that collects the history and culture of the police over time, integrating principles, values and norms on their constitutional and institutional role, the philosophical and legal foundations of Police Law linked to the defense of human rights, law, order and security, as well as its mystique and vocation of service on which its organizational culture and the promotion of social peace and love for the country rests, represented by its symbols, distinctive command and authority, customs and traditions that drive the generative action of heroes and martyrs, which amalgamated constitute a solid structure of Integration and Police Identity.The Police Doctrine precedes and supports the knowledge and practical theoretical concepts on Internal Order, Public Order and Citizen Security.
Today, the police are a security force in charge of maintaining public order and the safety of citizens and subject to the orders of the political authorities. Its administration can be centralized at the national level, or decentralized, with largely autonomous local police forces.
conclusion
In conclusion, the Police is a science of life, it is interested in everything that has the right to live. Nothing that happens in society is indifferent to him, it is present in the most intimate fibers of society. On the prosperity of it depends the optimal life of the State.
Therefore, the Police is the State in action. Its activity is aimed at making the external life of individuals useful and profitable.
Bibliography
- Public administrationwikipedia.org / wiki / police
