Week 1 Flashcards
SWOT analysis is best described as what type of tool?
Planning Tool
SWOT analysis can be effectively used by who?
Everyone (Admin/Squads)
SWOT analysis:
Strengths and Weaknesses are found where?
Internal
How many strategy types can be developed using SWOT?
4
SWOT strategy that establishes a defensive plan to prevent an organization’s weaknesses from making it vulnerable to external threat?
W-T
SWOT strategy used strength to reduce vulnerabilities to real threats?
S - T
An often used method for gathering information when developing SWOT analysis.
SWOT Survey
SWOT survey an be useful tools to do what?
Identifying areas where a consensus of thoughts and attitudes exist
Ensuring every survey released internal/external is approved by chief or designee is considered what?
Very important
Staff studies contain a concise and accurate analysis of a specified problem and statements of optional solutions including what?
Pertinent data, recommendation or referred solution.
First step in process of preparing a staff study.
Identify problem
Where is the summary/statement of problem located?
First section/Written last
Important purpose of summary/statement of problem is what?
Inspire reader to read on
Summary should include, at least:
Major findings, specific solution/recommendations, startup/recurring costs.
Funding constraints, performance parameters, required authorizations, policy development deadlines, matrix, represent some, but not all of the things that are essential criteria relating to a___________.
Solution
What is the minimum number of option alternatives to solve a problem in a staff study?
3
Your conclusion should recommend____ and describe:
1, how your choice accomplishes task.
Voluminous data, schematics, diagrams and other materials that would be distracting to a reader if placed in the body of the study should be where?
Appendix
Information identifying books and other information sources should be placed where?
Bibliography
Lewis was more of a ________.
Leader
Clark was more of a ______________.
Manager
What is POSDCORB?
More of a process of how we do something.
What is LODESTAR?
More of a product of something that actually occurred.
Janus is a mythical figure one way mirror hypothesis. “We make sense of our world ___________ and all understanding originates in reflection and looking ________.”
Retrospectively, backward
According to Maple, Compstat was based on______________.
Battle of Britain
3 distinct eras of policing in order
Political
Reform
Community Policing
Sir Robert Peel described primary police mission as what?
Prevention of crime
What was the primary tactic of reform era policing?
Motorized Policing.
What did former chief of police OW Wilson believe in?
Strong management controls of centralized command structure
Chief August Vollmer is well known for advocating what?
College education
What is one of the main limitations of the machine metaphor?
Change is slow and resented.
Henry V speech before battle was an example of what metaphor?
Culture
What does the discussion center around in the Transition Metaphor?
The natural tensions which occur in most organizations
What was Frederick the Great’s view of classic management?
Fear the officers not the enemy
Frederick Taylor was the father of what?
Scientific Managment
Organizational configurations of traditional organizations are what?
Rigid Bureaucracy
Principle of an officer reporting to one an only one supervisor.
Unity of Command
The number of officers a supervisor is responsible for supervising
Span of Control
Scalar chains refers to what?
Positions in an organization are linked to one another.
Lost on the moon exercise is used to display what?
Group Dynamics
Groups develop in stages - New ideas emerge in which stage?
Storming Stage
Groups develop in stages - In which stage does group structure develop?
Norming Stage
Groups develop in stages - The end of a group achievement is often characterized by what?
Celebration
________, sitting ducks and dens of iniquity refer to ______, victims and places of crime occurring.
Ravenous wolves, predators
What is the PARETO RULE?
80/20 Rule. 80% of time is spent on 20% of problem areas.
Problem oriented policing is resource intensive and requires _________, ___________ and ________ to perform effectively.
Time, energy and capacity
In problem oriented policing, crime, reported crimes, arrests, convictions and jail time is described as a metaphor of a what?
Funnel
ILP indicates policing requires what to be effective?
Information
ILP requires what to be deployed effectively?
Enthusiastic support of command structure personnel
ILP argues for __________________, disruption and crime enforcement to be effective.
Crime prevention
Strategies in policing come and go, often strategies are no longer deployed because of what?
They are ineffective at reducing crime.
