Administration Interview Report

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Administration Interview Report

While doing this project I interviewed Lieutenant Harris of the Hattiesburg Police Department. Lieutenant Harris has been on the force about ten years and a Lieutenant for two years. He leads both the strike team and the net team for Hattiesburg Police Department. Furthermore, with his law enforcement experience and leadership experience, I chose different questions that he could relate too and that pertain to the class.
The first question I asked Lieutenant Harris was, did he consider himself a leader or a manager?
Lieutenant Harris had an interesting answer and with the job he does on a daily basis, he is a leader and a manager. He believed in the position he has on the police department it is important to be a leader and a manager. Lieutenant Harris believed he needed to show the guys he supervises on the strike and net team that he still could get his hands dirty. He also stated that the job required him to do both, based on how the police department operated. He also admitted his managerial skills are something he must improve on and that he is currently in school to improve on those skills.
When analyzing Lieutenant Harris’s answer, I could tell it was the answer of someone who is continuing to learn the position in order to excel in being a Lieutenant at Hattiesburg Police Department. Furthermore, he is a Lieutenant in a managerial and leadership role, but everything is still operated on how the Chief of Police wants things to take place. This particular managerial position as Lieutenant can be difficult because of the structure of how the department is operated. Furthermore, Lieutenant Harris can lead his men that are in the strike and net team, but he is also looking over his head wit...

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... skills and over time will become better and he can reach his primary goal of being police chief. He also believed that the process will have to take time and he will find out how well he has done based on how his officers careers turn out to be.
When I looked at this answer it is very clear that Lieutenant Harris takes his job seriously and understands the position he has with Hattiesburg Police Department. In the operations of most police departments it is in a level 1 or level 2 type of environment, so it is difficult for others below the chief, to improve on managerial skills. The managerial experience will improve over time.. Furthermore, the chief still has the final decisions, and it can be difficult for and a Lieutenant or Sargent to improve in those skills, especially if they are still taking orders from the chief like the regular patrol police officers.

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