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Police Administration Test 1 Detailed Questions and Expert Answers
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Police Administration Test 1 Detailed Questions and Expert Answers
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Police Administration Test 1 Detailed Questions andExpert Answers
Police departments are unique in three ways - ANS unique work, unique authority,
and unique availability
organization - ANS a group of people working together to accomplish a desired
goal and serve a useful role in society to survive. Police department is organized
into units that have to work together
suboptimization - ANS individual or units concentrating on there own objectives
without considering the departments overall goals, may adversely affect other
unit's activities
In large organizations there are three activities people must do to accomplish goals
- ANS task performance, facilitating to helping those who perform the task, and
supervising task performance
line personnel - ANS those personnel who perform fundamental police activities or
supervise them
staff personnel - ANS personnel who help line personnel by providing support or
assistance
boundaries - ANS the department's goals and the people it serves
,-because new problems emerge the department has to be adaptive
administration - ANS the general managing and organizing that occurs at the
highest levels of an organization
POSDCORB - ANS an acronym meaning planning, organizing, staffing, directing,
coordinating, reporting, and budgeting pg. 8
administrative agencies have two components - ANS -organization: refers to
structuring and staffing, or the placing of people in the department (determined
by available resources and mission)
-management: the processes administrators, middle managers, and supervisors
use to give and organization direction and to influence people to work toward
organization goals (administrators actions to implement decisions and policies)
typical police organization resembles a military structure with management levels -
ANS - administration (chief, assistant chief, and majors)
-commanders or mid-level managers (captions and lieutenants)
-supervisors (sergeants)
-managers guide the employee through polices, direction, procedures and orders,
and employee development
-supervisor is responsible for an individual unit (involved in people and task
activities) and administrator is responsible for larger organizational areas (mission
and goal orientation)
, Because the police department is always changing the administrator is concerned
with two general management aspects - ANS -organizational maintenance: those
administrative activities that maintain the departments ability to respond to public
needs (staffing, training, and organizational development)
-adaptation: the fact that public expectation and needs are constantly changing,
requiring the department to change or adapt to these changes (ex: being able to
react to a new threat)
Police departments differ from all other organizations because - ANS only the
police possess legitimate arrest power and authority within our society and it is a
government organization
mission statement - ANS enumerates the departments purpose ("intended to
communicate their core beliefs and principles that will drive their delivery of
services to their communities")
- notify and educate officers and citizens about departments values
-yardstick to measure departments successes and failures
-guide to establishing training and other socialization programs which change the
informal organizations culture and values
government organizations differ from public organizations in 6 ways - ANS public
organization exist within a political environment, government agencies do not
have a profit motive, government is involved in the provision of services as
opposed to goods, the existence of bureaucratic governmental rules and
regulations stymies creativity and flexibility, government has limited inflexible
resources and government answers to citizens while public businesses answer to
stockholders
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