Rodrigo Nieto, PhD
Policing innovation for the age of exponential change
About me
Dr. Rodrigo Nieto is a strategist and futurist focused on the consequences of the accelerating pace of change in homeland security and policing environments. He is a research professor at the National Security Affairs Department and at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School and he is also a certified facilitator for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST).
For a decade, Dr. Nieto has taught hundreds of high ranking law enforcement, military and homeland security leaders how to create and execute strategies to transform their agencies to meet the requirements of a rapidly changing environments threat profiles. As an innovation expert and an academically trained geostrategist, he has built a reputation as an expert on future threats to national security and policing and how to confront them.
Rodrigo Nieto has multiple publications describing the adaptation capacities of global organized crime, the public policy challenges of innovation and intrapreneurship in government and homeland security, asymmetric warfare and cybersecurity.
PRINCIPLES OF POLICING
“The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.”
“The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions.”
“Police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.”
“The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.”
“Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to the public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.”
“Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient.”
“Police should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare.”
“Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.”
“The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.”
Sir Robert Peel’s Nine Principles of Policing
