Book Part 2 Flashcards
Planning
A process that links present actions to future conditions
SITAR
Synoptic Incremental Transactive Advocacy Radical
This is also known as the rational comprehensive approach and is the dominant tradition and policing
Synoptic planning
This model contends that police managers and administrators ”play things safe” and opt to move very slowly and decision making
Incremental model
This relies on acquiring face-to-face knowledge of peoples problems and not those of some anonymous groups
Transactive
This model rests on the adversarial process of the legal profession and Is usually applied to help the weak and disadvantaged against powerful interests
Advocacy
This rests on the notion that planning is most effective when done by lay people on neighborhood committees that know their own problems
Radical
This type of planning is based on the assumption things will continue to be as they are and will be business as usual
Inactive planning
This is the reaction to problems that have presently occurred and are being addressed or are presently happening and require a response
Reactive planning
This is the attempt to change or anticipate events in the future that are likely to occur
Proactive planning
This is centered on the future, attempting to predict changes in a larger environment
Preactive planning
Four steps of synoptic planning
- Goal setting
- Identification of alternatives
- Evaluation of the means against the end
- Implementation of decision
3 indispensable features of a goal statement
- Time phased
- Quantitative
- Target specific
The 5 steps of the Decision Matrix
- Identify and define the criteria against which all alternatives will be evaluated.
- Develop the decision matrix
- Have each member on the planning team score each alternative on all criteria with the points to find on an accompanying scale
- Compute the total score for each alternative
- Discuss the higher scoring alternatives and make a selection
Five types of plans
- Administrative or management plans
- Procedural plans
- Operational plans
- Tactical plans
- Strategic plans
6 steps of reflective thinking
- Identification of the problem
- Obtaining necessary information
- Production of possible solutions
- Evaluation of solutions
- Selection of a strategy for performance
- Implementation of the decisions
These are the rules and standards governing conduct
Ethics
7 Common errors in decision making
- Cognitive Nearsightedness
- The assumption that the future will repeat the past
- Oversimplification
- Overreliance on one’s own experience
- Preconceive notion’s/confirmation bias
- Unwillingness to experiment
- Reluctance to decide/procrastinate
Most police managers prefer a __________ System of communication because they can control it and because it tends to create a record for future reference.
Formal
Downward communication
Communication used by management to send orders, directives, goals, policies and so on, to employees at lower levels of the organization
5 Types of communication within an organization
- Job instructor
- Job rationale
- Procedures & practices
- Feedback
- Indoctrination
Order of effectiveness ( from most effective to least effective)
- Oral and written communication combined
- Oral communication only
- Written communication only
- The bulletin board
- The organizational grapevine
Upward communication
Communication used by lower-level employees
Horizontal communication
Communication amongst peers
