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• Preventing crime - Responding to routine incidents
• Providing support services - In addition to all of their other duties, police officers need to provide support services for their town.
• Source/Encoding - person or organization who has information to share with another person or group
• Message - contains the information or meaning the source or sender hopes to convey.
• Channel - method or medium by which the communication travels from source or sender to receiver.
• Receiver/Decoding - person(s) with whom the sender shares thoughts or information
• Noise - factors that can distort or interfere with adequate reception or comprehension.
• Response/Feedback - reaction the receiver has after seeing, hearing and/or reading the message.
• SEMANTICS - barriers which arise because of the different meanings that different words contexts.
• Motivation and interest - our interest to send or to receive a message can determine the effectiveness of communication