Building Trust And Credibility Is Important

Trust defines the ability to create a cohesive team in the first principle of mission command. Lack of trust between commanders, subordinates and peers develops a lack of confidence in everyone’s ability to accomplish

Trust- should be slowly built up across team members, through developing confidence in each other’s competence and reliability. Trusting individuals are willing to share their knowledge and skills without fear of being diminished or exploited.

In this book, trust is defined as “one’s willingness to be vulnerable to another based on the confidence that the other is benevolent, honest, open, reliable, and competent.” (page xiii) The author recognizes that trust is complex and dynamic. She views trust as the “lubricant” that greases the machinery of the organization. Trust is particularly important where parties are interdependent, or the “interests of one party cannot be achieve without reliance upon another.” In schools “teachers and principals are

Today I am writing this disciplinary report on the importance of integrity in law enforcement. What is Integrity? To me Integrity is the quality of being honest at all times, and having and using strong moral principles. Integrity is not solely based upon the actions of an officer when everyone is watching you, but also includes the actions taken when it is believed that no one is around to watch. Integrity is also being able to admit when you have made a mistake and own up to it. It also means being trustworthy and dependable even when the right thing to do isn’t the easiest or most popular. Integrity is also directly related to many other qualities that you would want in a police officer. Without integrity you cant have honesty, without honesty there is no accountability, without accountability there is no excellence. As you can see integrity is the baseline quality that's wanted in any person seeking a law enforcement

• Integrity: each police officer is presumed to do the right thing, at all times, regardless of the matter at hand, those involved and any other influences. Officers are held to a higher lever of integrity and expected to perform above all else, at all times (Baker, 2011).

Although the economic environment and social relationships have changed, police officers remain the centerpiece and foundation of civil law enforcement — but without community support and trust, they will never be capable of doing their job effectively. Public trust is the cornerstone of successful policing, the currency by which they are allowed to operate. One act of misconduct, perceived or otherwise, reflects wholly on the department and is one of the most substantial hurdles to overcome as an active stakeholder within the community, not an enemy of it. Strong leadership can steer the department through adverse periods of municipal distrust by fostering a culture from within that promotes openness, fairness, and high ethical standards. Creating buy-in from internal stakeholders establishes a strong foundation and promotes esprit de corps, upon which a very successful strategic communication and outreach campaign to external stakeholders (latent, expectant, and definitive) will thrive and ensure widespread support.

Integrity is one of the most valuable attributes an officer can have. Integrity is what keeps officers credible in court, respected in their communities, and in good standing with their departments. Stability relates to Integrity in many ways in Law Enforcement, to create stability everyone in the department must possess integrity in order to maintain trust within the department. Integrity is what keeps the community's trust in the department. Thus, Integrity is another key character that would make me a great officer in the Lakeland Police

Loving, K. (2014). 3 Ways For Law Enforcement To Improve Public Relations and Trust. Retrieved September 12, 2017, from

The concept of trust is most easily grasped at the interpersonal level which (is) perhaps the most important for unit cohesion and effectiveness. Another contributor to cohesion and effectiveness is the trust that exists between members of the Army profession and the bureaucracy, which should serve as the Profession. Interpersonal trust is based on predictable behavior resulting in an individual’s perception and feeling that the gains associated with cooperation outweigh the uncertainty and risk inherent in the relationship.” (Allen, C.D & Braun III W.G. (2012). Trust: Implications for the Army Profession, Unpublished

Building trust takes time and effort up front. It takes deep commitment and follow-through. It pays off.

Having a high standard of personal integrity and honesty will really help prepare one for employment in the justice field in many different ways. Integrity and honesty is one of the most important requirements for any criminal justice career. It is extremely important to know what is right and wrong and to be honest no matter what the consequences if you are planning on entering the justice field, especially a police officer. Police officers must commit to the highest moral and ethical standards, they can't be prejudice or favor someone without knowing every single detail, must show good personal conduct, have high integrity on and off duty, and plenty more. One major reason to have a high standard of integrity and honesty at all times is because if you are a person who has ever been in trouble for something that showed you had been dishonest (such as theft, cheating, lying, and more) and you apply for a job in the justice field, they will most likely find it no matter how off your record it supposedly is and you will not be hired. In their minds they are most likely thinking that if you could be dishonest once then you can be dishonest again and they don't want someone likely that employed with them. Another reason to have a high standard of integrity and honesty at all times would be because if you were able

With all the recent issues that are currently seeing on the news from the Travon Martin Case, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Corruption in Law Enforcement there really needs to be some policies put in place to address untruthful officers. Unfaithful Officers are a subject that has been in the news for many years and will continue to be. Being labeled as an untruthful officers is not a brand an officers would like to wear. The essay will discuss how important trust is when working in Law Enforcement, Termination or not of officers who are caught lying.

Goodwill to me, had always been the willingness to help others. I think of the Goodwill store, there to supply for the less fortunate. My thoughts weren’t far off from the actual definitions. Goodwill being the positive relationship between you (or your company) and your audience. This helps to understand the phrase, “bring goodwill toward men”, to better the relationships between them.

There is a perception of distrust between law enforcement and the community. This distrust stems directly from the dangerous words police use when communicating with the community. (Willis, 2015, p.) Simply choosing better words can help build relationships between law enforcement and the community. It is necessary for law enforcement to have trust with their community. There are many things that hinge on the police-community relationships, the ability of law enforcement to perform their duties, are the most important. Law enforcement must be willing to rely on the public to observe the law. They must always demonstrate absolute impartiality to the law.

In order for interpersonal trustworthiness to exist in organizations, a leader-follower relationship must first exist between the parties involved (Caldwell et al., 2010, p. 500). Once that leader-follower relationship is established, leaders have to earn trust. Leaders earn trust by their respective actions, morals and virtues. Trust is can also be based on past history. If something was done in the past which questions a leader’s values, morals or judgment, it would be unlikely that the leader would be trusted in the future. One of the most important parts of being an effective leader is building and maintaining trust. Trust can further be defined as a “multi-dimensional construct comprising different dimensions of the trustee’s attributes that the trustor evaluates” (Ingenhoff and Sommer, 2010, p. 341).