What is the difference between a Public Safety Officer and Private Security in Oregon?
I would like to start a Security Company in oregon but in my business name I would like to call myself Public Safety. I currently work in-house security for a Hospital in oregon we call ourselves Security, but we partner with a university who have Public Safety Officers. We both have the same training and the same DPSST License... So what is the ORS definition (if there is one) that defines a Public Safety Officer. OHSU, OSU, U of O, they all have Public Safety Officers but my buddy at Pacific University (which is a private university) is also a Public Safety Officer, there is no difference between him or I. So can I start a security company and have the title say "Blank Public Safety" and if not what is prohibiting me from claiming the title "Public Safety?"
What category do police officers, fire fighters and paramedics fall under?
They are not just public servants. They are more than that! The only correct answer is: They are our life insurance! They made it their job to protect our health and property!
What do I call my recruiter when I see him in public?
If you know his rank is Petty Officer then it is OK to say: "Hello, Petty Officer" "Good morning, Petty Officer" Most of the time the recruiter knows that you haven't been to training yet and even if you just said "Hello, how are you?" and not put a title after it... The only time you will address a Petty Officer as "Sir" is during boot camp...after that, you will learn people's name whom you work with.
Why do some cops in the U.S. have a public name and a legal name? Why not just use their legal name?
“Why do some cops in the U.S. have a public name and a legal name? Why not just use their legal name?”First, many people. in general, use “public names” instead of legal names. I know a man “named” Kip, for instance. His legal first name is something very old-fashioned-sounding and his middle name is an old family name. I don’t know how he came to be known as “Kip,” but that’s the name he uses on everything. It is, for all intents and purposes, his “legal” name, but it isn’t the same as what is on his birth certificate.There are, of course, many people in many professions who use stage names instead of their legal names. A performer’s stage name is as much a “public name” as that of a police officer using a different name from his/her legal name.But aside from the “everyone can do it if they want to” reason, some officers keep “professional” and “personal” names separate for privacy reasons.Most officers live within a reasonably close proximity to where they work. If some ne’er-do-well takes offense at Officer John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt arresting him, he might just look in a phone book to see where Officer J.J.J. Schmidt lives then visit Officer J.J.J. Schmidt’s house some late night or early morning. If that officer goes simply by “Jay Schmidt” at work, it might be a little more difficult to find him than by using his legal name.A fellow officer went by “Steven” at work, but was known as “Gil” to his family and non-work-related friends and associates. I met his wife at a teacher’s party hosted by a (non-police) mutual acquaintance one night and asked if she was married to Steven. She asked, “How do you know him?” and was much more pleasant when she discovered that I was also an officer. I could have been a former “client” of his and might have caused some ugliness at the party.For some officers, it’s much safer to have a different public name. While it’s not exactly common, there are plenty of officers who are subject to legitimate threats from gang-bangers, drug dealers, etc., and do as much as possible to keep their personal and work lives separate. Some go so far as to have phones, car registrations, mortgages, etc., listed only with an alias.tl;dr: For some, it’s just the same as anyone else with a nickname or “other” name. For others, it’s a significant safety issue.
Is the phrase "to hold public office" common in English?
It is a very common phrase, used every day. To hold public office means to have any position in a government that involves powers and obligations. A public office holder could be elected to the job or appointed by an executive officer of the government, or hired through a civil service exam, or could obtain the post some other way. Examples would include members of a legislature, a president, governor, mayor, or prime minister (or even a king or queen), a sheriff, a judge, a police officer, a clerk in a government office, or anyone else who works for the government or has the role of carrying out some government function. Most public office holders are paid employees, but even if they are not paid, they still hold public office if they have powers and duties for carrying out laws. "Office" is a countable noun here. I can't think of a context where "office" would be an uncountable noun. Other ways to say "to hold public office": to be a public official, to be an officer of the government, to be a public servant, to work in the public sector.
What do you call the police medical people and the firefighters?
Try emergency personnel.*
Is there a specific name attributed to firefighters, police officers, and mailmen/women?
Cops- Coproaches firefighters- Heroes.
What is your opinion on Public Defenders?
They are just part of the justice system. Usually they are over worked and over exended and cannot provide the defense that a paid criminal defense attorney would. Some of them try to make a name for themselves by trying to act tough in court, but it is an act. Most PD's usually try to get the defendant to plead out so they can lessen their case load. And most of them don't like the defendant any more than we do, they are just doing the job that the court appointed them to do. Sometimes the people we arrest are going to get back out on the street. It is probably the most frustrating part of the job. Don't take it personally, just do your job.
Is copying a public document considered plagiarism?
Plagiarism is when you take somebody else's work and claim it as your own, so it all depends on how you do it. If you make clear the source of the information and properly acknowledge the source(s), whether you use generalized summaries or specific quotes, that's usually not plagiarism. If you take those same ideas, insights, perspectives, or quotes and pass them off as your own work, then yes it is.As to tables or paragraphs and the specifics of your example, I'd focus more on which formatting method helps communicate the information most seamlessly, and then attribute your source accordingly, not on whether reproducing the table is copying or plagiarism. If you want to use a table from it, if it's your own city's data, you probably only need to cite it. If it's another entity's production about your city, a permission request is likely in order to use the table as is to stay out of copyright trouble (though you could make your own if you don't need all of the data).NOTE: The absence of a cited author is irrelevant. You may not know the name of the author (it may have been a committee or a task force), but it should be obvious what agency, department, or entity produced it (if not, it's nor a reliable source of information). Every style manual out there (APA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.) gives explanations on how to cite a public document without an author listed. Here's a great resource from the Health Sciences Dept at George Washington University on how to do that with government documents in APA Style: Research Guides at George Washington University. And quite likely the report already contains that info on the page right after the title page.