Introduction to Police Administration
The police administration is a department that is responsible for maintaining law and order. To be able to accomplish these functions, the police Administration have been simplified into various systems, management functions and organizational principles. Like any other organization, police administration requires sound and well established hierarchical form of leadership to be able to propel it to the required standards of competencies and effectiveness. As usual, the relationship between the leaders’ skills is directly proportional to the performance of the organization. Other contributing factors to effectiveness include; the environment and the organizational culture. Good leaders provide good guidance. The police administration is designed based on a system of interrelatedness among various units and organizations. It also has administrative principles, management functions, and emphasizes on the importance of written guidelines. The police have a strategic management perspective that is based on communications and information systems, performance appraisal and promising approaches that are meant to increase the police agency effectiveness through the reduction in overall crime rate.
The Nature of Police Work
The police have a portfolio to implement that often involves working within a difficult tightrope between the loyalty of the organizational on one hand, and maintaining their personal credibility and integrity on the other hand. A well designed approach is recommended to enable the organization to support the core competencies without compromising on professional reputation of the police Administration. A preferable management style is appropriate. The job of the police entails ...
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...ards preventing and controlling conducts widely threatening the lives and property of its citizens. This is achieved through promoting public safety and enhancing citizen focus through responding promptly to the local in local neighborhoods.
3 They also identify the problems that have a potential of becoming more dangerous. The police provide the best service to members of the community who require the services, whether as a victim or crime.
4 The police are also obligated to assist individuals who lack the ability to protect themselves
5 They also work to facilitate the movement of people and the vehicles
6 They also protect the constitutional rights of individuals
7 Police help resolve two conflict sides and bring peace for instance through preventing mobs and riots
8 The police are the arm of government that is the custodian of the country’s constitution
While the concept of containment borrows some key points from the concept of community oriented policing, the two are still very different. Officers choose to be peace keepers in skid-row areas, and use containment to protect the quality of life of those in the community outside of the “jungle” that takes hold of skid-row (Bittner, 1967). When faced with the option of enforcer or peace keeper, officers feel keeping the peace is the more manageable approach when dealing with these areas. The dynamics of policing must be flexible in regards to situations at hand. While enforcer is often the role needed for many situations, peace keeper is a core role for dealing with skid-row areas.
Stojkovic, S., Kalinich, D., & Klofas, J. (2012). Criminal Justice Organizations: Adminstration and Management. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
On Tuesday, September 23rd, I had the opportunity to do a ride along with the Takoma Park police department. My ride along was quite interesting. I rode with Officer Carl, a twenty-six-year-old officer who has been with the police department for six months. During the ride along we engaged in so many conversations concerning his work routine, and some the important things to be aware of as a police officer. Officer Carl and I were about the same age group so I felt much comfortable talking to him. Before I went for the ride along I had a different perspective about police work, I thought police work was much amusing and entertaining, but after the ride along with Officer Carl, I have realized that there is much more to police work and it often
An article written jointly by Mark Perez and Anthony H Normore, published in the Journal of California Law Enforcement discusses the growing concern that the public’s trust in law enforcement is at an all-time low due to the ethical choices that some of our leadership have been making and how we can improve the publics opinion of law enforcement and some of their unethical decisions. The purpose of their article is to share their thoughts on police leadership and ethic, they feel by having just one powerful confident police leader in a department it can have a positive impact on that police department by reducing the rate of misconduct. They also feel by having a police force with strong integrity
The main purpose of the police is to protection, and force should only be use to promote the safety of the community. The police have been charged with the one of the greatest responsibility in the world, and that is with safeguarding the domestic well being of the public. My father was a New York police officer for 20 years, and I know firsthand that this job is not an easy one. The polic...
While on the job, police must put all their personal opinions aside. They must provide everyone with an equal and fair chance. It is important in a democratic society for police to not know too much about the community they are policing. It allows them to ...
What is the purpose of police officers? Are they here to provide safety for the people or are they here to just mess up their lives? All around the country the statement “protect and serve” can be seen on any police vehicle and any police building. But more often times than not the question arises, who are they truly protecting? Themselves or the helpless citizens of The United States of America. Over the past century crimes rates have sky rocketed; although these crimes are not being committed by your everyday criminals they 're being committed by the police officers that are suppose to be protecting the people. The reasoning behind these crimes remains unknown, but, there are always two sides to every story.
Young people and the police have, for many years, experienced a tense and confrontational relationship (Borgquist & Johnson et al., 1995). This has led to a great wealth of literature based upon the notion of police-youth interaction. Much of this literature has tended to focus upon juvenile criminality and the reasons why young people commit such seemingly high levels of crime. Whilst the relationship between young people and the police force has been widely theorised and explained, there is very little literature on juvenile attiudes towards the police. Research that concerns societies attitudes towards the police force tends to focus upon the views and opinions of adults (Hurst and Frank, 2000). In this first section of my literature review I am going to focus upon work that allows us to gain a deeper understanding of why young people are so important when looking at crime. This section will allow us to comprehend the ways in which, literature suggests, young people view the police. This knowledge will provide a basis for my research in which I look more specifically at youth attitudes towards PCSO’s.
Cordner, G. W., & Scarborough, K. E. (2010). Police administration (7th ed.). Albany, N.Y.: LexisNexis/Anderson Pub.
These new styles of policing are helping decrease citizens fear in the community, and it makes it easier for officers to respond to crime scenes. having community policing also helps officers watch out for crimes such as break and enter, robbery, sexual assaults and murderer aropund community areas ( neighborhoods watch).
The New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for helping the community to decrease or reduce crime, corruption and improve the responsibility of safety and protection in New Zealand. There is a need to make changes to the police culture in order to improve the performance of their organisation. However there are three fundamental errors that need to be addressed which will be discussed in this essay. Firstly, there is a lack of an established sense of urgency which has the potential to jeopardize the future of the organization. Secondly is, not creating a powerful enough guiding coalition which means there is a lack of communication which resulted in an absence of leadership and teamwork from frontline staff to national headquarters. Finally, an undercommunicating the vision by a factor of ten that organisation leader needs to communicate visions and strategies. These three errors are relevant as they are pivotal in the implementation of a managing change programme. Recommendations are also provided to improve on how the New Zealand Police can be enhanced within a management perspective.
The focus is on the issues of police accountability in modern society, and in particular why their accountability is more important than other professions. This is not surprising considering the amount of power and discretion police officers have, and the level of trust that the public holds with these civil servants. Police officers accountability is the biggest thing in their profession which has been an issue of concern they have to be accountable to the police department who want the officer to be an effective and responsible person, to people in the community who have best expectation from an officer and being accountable to themselves for their acts. An ordinary citizen of a country cannot obtain the powers that police officer’s have.
Conversely, police officers may suggest that there are citizens that don’t do their part to make their neighborhoods safe, which takes us back to Sir Robert Peel. Unfortunately, when the police try to empower people to be accountable, and to do their part, the interpretation is that the police are avoiding their responsibility. In any case, understanding there is work to be done by both, the police and citizens is the first step. Now, implementing the processes to make the corrections needed is merely a start.
Many things come to mind when the word police is said aloud. When asked, one person provided the words “protection, and law”, while another simply stated “pigs”. We’ve all formed opinions on the police whether it be positive or negative based off of what we see in the news, hear from others, and from our own personal experience. The politically correct definition of police is “the civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order”. In the United States of America, the police have made a lasting impact on the public’s view of them most of which is unpleasant. What we forget however, is that the police are formed of individuals who set out to keep us safe and do good. Police officers do not wake up in the morning with the urge to kill a civilian and abuse the power they hold. They get up in morning ready to go to work and carry out their jobs like every other person does.
1. to safe-guard lives and property: It is very important that police officers try to protect their citizens to the very best of their ability. Also it is important that the also protect our property and belongings.