Assessment Description

Imagine what you would do in this situation if you were the chief of police for a local police department. At a conference, you just learned about a new communications technology that would greatly assist your officers, and would address a problem the officers have been complaining about for the past couple of years.

In 750-1,000 words, do the following:

• Explain various strategies you can use to get funding to purchase this new technology for the department.
• Describe the implications for police management when identifying the future needs of police and community stakeholders. What do police management have to consider and deal with when identifying future needs?
• Discuss how police management can find a balance between police needs and public needs if those two needs are in conflict.

Be sure to cite three to five relevant scholarly sources in support of your content. Use only sources found at the GCU Library (website and log-in would be provided), government websites, or those provided in Resources.

To successfully complete this assignment, you will need to:

• Refer to Chapter 9, “The Staff World: Managing the Prison Population,” in your Corrections in the 21st Century textbook.
• Use the Strayer University Library to conduct research on the role of corrections officers and the challenges they face.
  • The B.S. in Criminal Justice library guide is a good place to start your research.
• Explore the Department of Corrections website for your state.
  • In your browser of choice, simply type the name of your state and department of corrections. For example: Minnesota Department of Corrections.

Corrections is one potential career option for people studying or working in the criminal justice field. According to the textbook authors, career opportunities exist as many states face a shortage of correctional officers. Likewise, staff turnover is high (Schmalleger, 2021).

Before making such an important decision to pursue this type of career, you’ll want to educate yourself on the major responsibilities required of this role and the challenges these officers face on a daily basis. This assignment will give you the opportunity to do just that by writing a 3–5 page research paper on the roles and challenges of correctional officers.

Instructions

After reviewing this week’s textbook reading and conducting research on the roles and challenges of corrections officers, you are to write a 3–5 page research paper in which you:

1. Explain the correctional facility staff hierarchy and the four main goals of correctional staff members, including the importance of each goal.
2. Outline the effectiveness of the five types of power available to correctional staff to manage inmate behavior.
3. Describe the factors contributing to correctional officer corruption within correctional facilities.
4. Report on the symptoms of stress for correctional officers and the associated underlying factors.
5. Summarize the effectiveness of the methods correctional officers use to cope with stress.
6. Use three sources to support your writing.
   • Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate.
   • Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment.
   • Access the Strayer University Library or review library guides for help with research, writing, and citation.

 

As before, Superpump Limited (“Superpump”) is a company based in Aberdeen, Scotland that supplies major items of plant and equipment for the offshore oil and gas industry.

Superpump wins a tender for the supply of equipment package to Bigoil Plc, a major oil and gas producer.The equipment is an essential part of Bigoil’s development of the Scurry oil field, a major new oil field situated around 20 miles West of the Shetland Isles.

The contract for the supply of equipment was worth a total of £4.5 million.Unfortunately, the delivery of the contract did not go smoothly.

There was a serious defect in the equipment package manufactured by Superpump for Bigoil.The equipment includes components manufactured using steel supplied by Wheeler’s Steel Ltd.The steel supplied by Wheeler’s Steel (although certified by them to be “Grade A Steel”) was in fact Grade B Steel, which is softer, more porous and less resilient than Grade A.As a result, the equipment made by Superpump does not conform to the contract between Superpump and Bigoil and cannot be safely installed or used.This defect was discovered at the point of testing by Superpump, prior to delivery to Bigoil.  Superpump needed to conduct extensive remedial works to replace the defective parts of the equipment package.This resulted in a project delay of three weeks.The delay caused Bigoil losses of £1million (comprised of £500,000 loss of profits and £500,000 wasted expenditure).

The day before Superpump were about to re-deliver the re-worked equipment to Bigoil, the equipment was seriously damaged by a major fire in Superpump’s premises.The fire was deliberately caused by an intruder who managed to get around the intruder alarm and overpowered the night-time security guard before turning off the state of the art fire suppression system and deliberately setting fire to the warehouse using accelerants.

The need to re-manufacture the tool caused a further 6 week delay.This caused Bigoil another £2million loss, (apportioned between loss of profits and wasted expenditure in the same proportion as before).

Contractual and commercial information relative to Problem 2

Wheeler’s Steel and Superpump

Wheeler’s Steel regularly supply steel to Superpump.Wheeler’s Steel’s managing director and Superpump’s sales director agree that in a telephone call on 13 October 2019, they agreed on supply of Grade A steel, a quantity and the price, with delivery to follow to Superpump’s fabrication yard “in about a week”.They did not expressly agree on any other terms and conditions.Wheeler’s Steel and Superpump have been doing business together for many years.In the early days they used to do it on the basis of a written contract that incorporated Wheeler’s Steel’s standard terms and conditions.However, as there had never been a problem with the steel provided before, they got out of the habit of putting the contract in writing.

Among other terms, Wheeler’s Steel’s terms and conditions contains the following:

“The Law of the Contract.The contract shall be governed by English law.”

“Limitation of Liability: in no circumstance will supplier be liable to purchaser for any sums exceeding the value of the contract. Neither party hereto shall be liable to the other for any consequential loss howsoever caused.”

The expression “consequential loss” is not further defined in the terms and conditions.

Superpump and Bigoil Plc

The contract between Superpump and Bigoil Plc is contained in a written agreement duly signed by both parties and dated 19 September 2019.The contract contains two relevant clauses for consideration, namely a Force Majeure clause and a Liquidated Damages clause, as below.References to “COMPANY” are references to Bigoil; references to “CONTRACTOR” are to Superpump.

Although signed in Scotland, the contract is written under and governed by English Law.

Clauses referred to:-

“15.Force Majeure

15.1 Neither party shall be responsible for any failure to fulfil any term of condition of this contract if or to the extent that fulfilment has been delayed by a force majeure event as hereinunder defined which has been promptly notified to the other and which is beyond the control and without the fault and negligence of the party affected and which, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, the said party is unable to provide against.

15.2 For the purpose of this contract only the following occurrences shall be force majeure:

Riot, war, invasion, acts of terrorism, rebellion or insurrection;

Ionising radiation;

Earthquake, flood, fire or explosion and/or other natural physical occurrence, but excluding weather conditions as such; 

Maritime or aviation disasters.”

“34.Liquidated damages for late performance

34.1If the CONTRACTOR fails to deliver the EQUIPMENT on or before the DELIVERY DATE, the CONTRACTOR shall be liable to the COMPANY for Liquidated Damages.

The amounts of such Liquidated Damages shall be as calculated as follows:

£55,000 per day’s delay or part thereof. 

34.2 All amounts of such Liquidated Damages for which the CONTRACTOR may become liable are agreed as a genuine pre-estimate of the losses which may be sustained by the COMPANY in the event that the CONTRACTOR fails in its respective obligations under the CONTRACT.

34.3 Such Liquidated Damages shall be the sole and exclusive financial remedy of the COMPANY in respect of such failure.”

1) Explain the relevant facts of the case that led to this lawsuit. Start by explaining what happened on the Spring Break trip and continue to explain all relevant events through the filing of the lawsuit. Your response should be AT LEAST three paragraphs long, with each paragraph including at least three sentences.

2) 1.List the “elements” of the tort: INTRUSION UPON SECLUSION.

2.Then apply the facts of the case to determine whether Wal-Mart (the defendant) is liable for committing this tort. Your response should identify the tort element, identify the relevant case facts, and then explain whether the facts violated the individual tort element. Repeat for ALL tort elements.

3) 1. List the “elements” of the tort: APPROPRIATION

2. Then apply the facts of the case to determine whether Wal-Mart (the defendant) is liable for committing this tort. Your response should identify the tort element, identify the relevant case facts, and then explain whether the facts violated the individual tort element. Repeat for ALL tort elements.

4) 1. List the “elements” of the tort: PUBLICATION OF PRIVATE FACTS

2. Then apply the facts of the case to determine whether Wal-Mart (the defendant) is liable for committing this tort. Your response should identify the tort element, identify the relevant case facts, and then explain whether the facts violated the individual tort element. Repeat for ALL tort elements.

5) 1. List the “elements” of the tort: FALSE LIGHT PUBLICITY

2. Then apply the facts of the case to determine whether Wal-Mart (the defendant) is liable for committing this tort. Your response should identify the tort element, identify the relevant case facts, and then explain whether the facts violated the individual tort element. Repeat for ALL tort elements.

DO NOT TELL ME THAT WAL-MART CANNOT BE LIABLE FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES’ CONDUCT. Employers can be liable for employee torts. I want you to assume that if the employee’s conduct violates the tort, Wal-Mart is liable. The purpose of this assignment is to examine the requirements of various privacy torts, not to examine agency law (when employers are liable for employee conduct).