Chp 10 Admin/staff Flashcards
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Those areas of the police organization that assist in performing an advisory.
Administrative or staff services
In American policing, many of the following functions or divisions are usually included under this title:
P,P,L,P,I,B,C
personnel and training, planning and research, legal adviser, public relations, inspections and internal affairs, and budget and community relations.
Nigro and Nigro point out “The line frequently resents the controls exercised by the staff officials. The reason is the staff exercise a veto over the line units… This is what?
Line/staff conflict
The line/staff conflict may get intensified when the staff functions are operated and supervised by who?
Civilians
Modern management principles applied to police functions normally result in a recommendation for the hiring of who for staff functions?
civilians for many staff functions. The major that civilians may be less costly to hire than sworn personnel for some unctions, and they can also be hired with prior training/education.
In line/staff conflict the role of the manager is what?
Be aware of potentional conflict between staff and line personnel and create a system to accommodate it.
Line/staff conflict: the authors recommend that civilian staff personnel have enough what to carry out their function?
Authority, but the authority should be clearly defined and does not extend to issuing orders to managers or line officers.
Staff officers and civilians usually look down on line officers. Three Recommendations for counteracting this are what?
GRI
- Get out of the office
- Rotate assignments- this is an excellent training ground for future executives
- Implement line/staff intervention. How? Through meetings and seminars.
What kind of units have many police agencies established for recapturing or establishing rapport with certain segments of the community or target populations prone to violent confrontations with police?
Public relations or community relations units
Community relations must become the personality of who?
Each and every professional police officer
A community relations officer should consider him or herself a what?
A micro community relations unit
In the in the daily actions of the who, are the only one true variable that increases or decreases tensions within the community?
The community police
The keyword here is credibility. If the department is to have a positive relationship with the press it must have what?
A credible relationship
Ideally we see the specialized community relations assignment as what?
Short-term and assign to all officers
The community relations unit functions and what to major areas?
Crime prevention and public relations
It must be stressed that the successful effective police department is one that is closely identified with what?
The community and one in which the officers do not leave community involvement to a unit of the department
Following are some of the major functions of the community relations unit:
PTDRCCC
Public speakers/experts bureaus
Tours and demonstrations
Department homepages and electronic newsletters
Ride alongs
College internships
Crime prevention programs
Citizen volunteer groups
Public speakers/expert bureaus:
The officer in charge of the community relations unit should review what?
Any topic that is to be presented so that there is a consistent departmental policy running through our presentations.
Public speakers/expert bureaus:
In the area of issues involving race ethnicity gender and sexual orientation special care should be taken to assign only those individuals who are what?
Knowledgeable and able to keep their heads in the mist of often heated and sometimes rather sharp discussions.
Tours and demonstrations:
These programs provide an excellent opportunity to educate the public by what?
Reviewing specific police techniques and operations in a realistic setting.
Tours and demonstrations:
Demonstrations in and outside the police station that have sparked community interest include what?
RDUAC
Radar use, dusting for fingerprints, use of police dogs, alcohol and drug detection, and computer capabilities.
Department homepage and electronic newsletters:
_________
employment opportunities
and up-to-date information on crime incidents
Crime Prevention tips
Department homepage and electronic newsletters:
Crime Prevention tips
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and up-to-date information on crime incidents
employment opportunities
Department homepage and electronic newsletters:
Crime Prevention tips
employment opportunities
and ______________
up-to-date information on crime incidents