Military Bureaucratic Police Case Study

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What policing models were introduced by Peel and MacDonald? Peel introduced the Military Bureaucratic Police Organization Model to address the problems at the time. MacDonald developed the Military-style model because he wanted soldiers. Why was each model implemented? What were the policing needs at the time? The Military Bureaucratic Police Organization model gave organizational structure, administrative control, and personal discipline to alleviate public scrutiny. It was made in response to the persistent problems of the coordination and control of police work, the conventional police organization became a centralized, specialized and formalized organization, emphasizing stability and operational autonomy. The hierarchical and rank of …show more content…

The Military Bureaucratic Police Organization Model was independent from politics and community, so they monitored themselves through rank and administration authority. Everything was formalised and procedure based, for reliability on independent professional control. Unlike the Military-style model where professionalism was disciplined into their members internally. The RCMP relied on their organization rather than their independent professionalism. Administration and superiors were immediately available and within a smaller structure, so there is more communication. Officers interacted with people and could establish a community policing level style instead of individual service. MacDonald wanted soldiers that did things by the book and reported just to the central government or their superiors within their own structure. The model developed a consumeristic cultural image for the internal and external structure. So, people trusted them for who they are known to be and the members of the RCMP took pride and claimed loyalty to the organization. The RCMP lacked the resources to control the individuals all over the provinces, so control was difficult and administration was even further away from the frontlines. Service was expected and individually transacted, with no community …show more content…

There is involvement with the public, but the internalised structure resisted community involvement in the process. The individual officers could get involved with the public on the community level instead of the general public level. The model drew its authority from public consent, cooperation and accountability. So, they needed the public to stay in power, not the federal government, unlike the RCMP. The eventual evolution of the RCMP to the community policing model would have the most favourable. It allowed members to be involved with locals and actually held them accountable on a municipal and provincial

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