Research Project

1. Describe the organization that you work for.

Law Enforcement Organization, we currently have 140 sworn officers, 40 civilian employees, and we serve the Marietta Community with a population of about 60,000 people. We are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

2. What is the mission and vision of the organization?

Mission is to serve and protect the community by the core values and we do so with our core values. Those core values are Honesty, Integrity, Respect, Team Work, Professionalism, and Loyalty.

3. How long have you been working at this organization and in what capacity?

Employee and officer of Marietta PD for 23 years, Currently the rank of major, have worked all different shifts, including day watch, morning watch and evening watch. Have been a detective, community response unit, Internal Affairs, Technology, and Accreditation Manager.

4. How are complaints addressed within your unit?

If someone does file a complaint they can do it on the telephone, make a written formal complaint. Depending on the serious, of the complaint, like if it’s an excessive use of force, or a criminal allegation, then that will be forwarded to the internal affairs, if it’s something minor, nothing to severe, those will be handled on the shift levels and do an investigation.

5. How are Policies Implemented within your agency?

We are again nationally accredited, in order to be accredited you have to comply with set standards, we have hundreds of standards and dozens of policies we comply with, we train on those. When someone is a new hire they get trained on all our policies and we also do Refresher training on an annual basis

6. Would you say that there is a team spirit within your unit?

Of course, in my shift absolutely. My shift starts from 11pm to 7am, so we have 3 shifts and there is a major in charge of each shift, the majors are also in charge of three areas of the zone, I’m basically in charge of the north east part of Marietta, but yes we do have team spirit in our unit.

7. To whom do you report to?

I report to Deputy Chief of Pharrell, and by the way or chain, the people that work here, we have 1 chief, 2 Deputy chiefs and 5 Majors and so on.

8. Do you receive or invite feedback on your programs/services?

Yes, theirs several ways citizens could do that, they can do that by either calling in, write in or by online surveys.

9. How are Policies Implemented within your agency?

We are again nationally accredited, in order to be accredited you have to comply with set standards, we have hundreds of standards and dozens of policies we comply with, we train on those. When someone is a new hire they get trained on all our policies and we also do Refresher training on an annual basis.

10. What are the do’s and don’ts for your job?

Dos is that we live by and perform by our core values, the biggest would be Honesty, one thing we tell our employees is do not lie. If you are found lying, you lose all your credibility, those who are caught lying can be terminated. Do are go by the core values and don’ts will be don’t Lie.

11. If you could change one thing in your job, what would that be and why?

I would say the Risk factor, there is a constant risk to the officers working and we prepare our officers with the knowledge and training. We train them well, but there is always going to be that risk. I would change somehow to lessen the risk, but we try to make it the best we can through our training and monitoring the offices performance as well and make sure whatever they are doing they are doing it safely.

12. What is the annual budget of the organization?

We are a 2 million dollar a year budget, excludes and a 13 million dollar a year including salaries and benefits.

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