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EIGHTH EDITION

Police Personnel Roles and Functions

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

Roles of the Police Executive

• Interpersonal role

 Figurehead

 Leadership

 Liaison

• Informational role

 Monitoring/inspecting

 Dissemination

 Spokesperson

• Decision-maker role:

 Entrepreneur

 Disturbance handler

 Resource allocator

 Negotiator

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

Law Enforcement Executives

• Assessment center

 A process used for promoting and hiring personnel that may include oral interviews, psychological tests, group and in-basket exercises, and writing and role-playing exercises.

 During each exercise, several assessors or raters analyze each candidate's performance and record some type of evaluation.

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

Skills of Good Managers

• Basic management skills that the police executives must develop

 Technical skill

 Human skill

 Conceptual skill

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

Machiavelli's Just Deserts and Advice

• Writings of Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli are widely read in college/university administration and management courses; he is widely known and criticized for a statement he never wrote: "The end justifies the means.“

• Nor did he suggest that being brutal and cunning were intrinsically good.

• He meant that when there are no other acceptable standards, in the actions of all men - and especially of “princes” - one judges by the result.

• His views of leadership nearly 500 years ago can be very instructive for today's police chief executives.

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

Chiefs of Police

• The top official in the chain of command of a municipal police department

• The mayor/governing board expect the chief to communicate with city management about police-related issues and to be part of the city management team.

• Members of the agency also have expectations of the chief executive.

• Qualifications for the position vary widely, depending on the size of the agency and the region of the country.

• Small agencies, especially those in rural areas, may not have a minimum educational requirement for the job.

• Education is an important consideration.

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

Job Protection, Termination, and the Political Arena

• Traditionally, the job tenure of police chiefs has been short, which:

 prevents long-range planning.

 results in frequent new policies and administrative styles.

 prohibits the development of the chief's political power base and local influence.

• Some chiefs leave their post as a result of situations and conflicts outside their control, such as:

1. Confrontation

2. Shaky alliance

3. Politicized organization

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

The Sheriff

• The top official in the chain of command of a county law enforcement agency

• The position of sheriff has played an important part in the early law enforcement activities of colonial America.

• Because of the diversity of sheriff's offices, it is difficult to describe a typical sheriff's department.

• However, functions commonly associated with the sheriff's office include:

1. Serving and/or implementing civil processes (divorce papers, liens, evictions).

2. Collecting certain taxes and conducting real estate sales (usually for nonpayment of taxes) for the county

3. Performing routine order-maintenance duties

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

The Sheriff

• Sheriffs also typically engage in duties relating to:

1. Law enforcement (with patrol, traffic, and investigative functions)

2. Courts (as civil process servers and bailiffs)

3. Corrections (in the county jails)

• Sheriffs are elected in all but two states: Rhode Island and Hawaii.

• Sheriffs tend to be older, less likely to have been promoted through the ranks of the agency, and less likely to be college graduates or to have specialized training than police chiefs.

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

Middle Managers

• Typically a captain or lieutenant, who coordinates agency units' activities and sees that the administrative strategies and overall mission are carried out

• Generally the intermediate level of leadership in a hierarchical organization, they report to the higher echelon of administrators and carry out their policies and the agency's mission, while also supervising subordinate managers and employees.

• Lieutenants assist the captain in running the shift.

• When there is a shortage of sergeants, the lieutenant may assume the duties of a first-line supervisor.

• The lieutenant's position is a training ground for future unit commanders (the rank of captain or higher).

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

First-Line Supervisors: The Patrol Sergeant

• One’s first promotion, often very difficult to achieve. The supervisor directs, controls, and evaluates the work of field personnel, ensures that agency policies and procedures are followed, counsels and places employees where resources are most needed, resolves employee conflicts, and performs related duties.

Types:

• Traditional

• Innovative

• Supportive

• Active

Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, 8e Kenneth J. Peak

The Patrol Officer

• The police perform four basic functions.

1. Enforcing the laws

2. Performing welfare type services (such as maintaining or assisting animal control units, reporting burned-out street lights or stolen traffic lights and signs, delivering death messages, checking the welfare of people in their homes, delivering blood)

3. Preventing crime (patrolling, providing the public with information on locks and lighting to reduce the opportunity for crime)

4. Protecting the innocent (by investigating crimes, police systematically remove innocent people from consideration as crime suspects)

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From Field Training Officer to Police Training Officer

• Police training officer (PTO)  A relatively new program where new officer are

evaluated on their application of community policing and problem-solving principles, using adult- and problem- based learning principles

 PTO seeks to replace much of the traditional FTO program—one that embraces and evaluates new officers based on their understanding and application of COPPS.

• It is believed that PTO provides a foundation for lifelong learning that prepares new officers for the complexities of policing