Explain Why Police Departments Need To Have Goals And Plans To Help Motivate Police Officers

The Virginia State Police has experienced a rise in staffing issues which include staffing shortages because of poor recruitment, an increase in retirements, poor salaries, and retention issues. However, these issues also occur in other counties around the country. Many local police officers execute their duties, along with the duties of the state police officers. Beyond the low salaries of police officers, the department lacks the proper equipment it needs to perform the jobs well. The lack of money, equipment, and resources has caused low employee morale, which resulted in many police officers quitting or retiring.

Police departments across the country and their actions of their employees have been scrutinized a lot lately in the media. Not only the way their employees behave but the way they recruit potential employees. Police officers take an oath to protect the communities that they serve in and uphold the constitution no matter what race, gender or ethnicity. With that being said, police officers should also be made up of people of different genders, races, and ethnicities.

Because police officers are identified by their jobs, members of the public frequently treat them as police, even when off-duty. This increases the need for bonding and socializing between officers, officers' families, and families of other officers. Officers are often unable to step back from jobs and separate their professional and personal lives (Hickman et al, 2004).

One of the largest issues plaguing police departments in United States is under staffing Under staffing has become ramp it all over the United States. Under staffing creates issues not only for officers with in a department but also within society as a whole. “The rate of sworn officers current habitats was 2.4 per 1000 in the nation in 2011. The rate of total full-time employees, civilian and sworn was 3.4 per 1000.” (Police Employee Data)

Most police officers are just trying to protect and serve — they would never consider discriminating against another person due to their race, and they try to responsibly deescalate situations whenever possible instead of resorting to violence. However, there are problems endemic to law enforcement culture, and many institutionalized problems that affect the work police do. No matter how good a police officer tries to be, it’s hard to make the world a better place while working from within an imperfect system. Law enforcement is something society will always need, and we are grateful to those who protect and serve, but the current system has issues it needs to address.

Police officers are in a very dangerous environment each and everyday. Think about the dangers that you could stumble upon working with criminals, armed angry people, drunk, high

The current Mission Statement of the Jackson Police Department is to improve the quality of life for its citizens and to reduce the problems associated with crime. They want to educate the officers and public and develop a co-active partnership with the community. They endeavor to be honest, fair, impartial, courteous, and respectful. I must admit I was shocked to see this as their mission. (JPD, unknown). After reading the mission for Madison, Wisconsin I can say that I was proud of their police department and could see myself living in a city where the police strive to give its citizen high-quality police services. They also stated that giving all of its citizens respect and dignity and for me, that sounds like key elements that all police

An integral training of today’s police officers duties is the physical skill of the application of use of force. This is needed skill requirement to detain and arrest a person who has committed a crime and resisting. Police officers must be trained to use force properly when the skill is required on a subject who is resisting police officers efforts to place them under arrest. This skill has the potential for the officer to exceed the needed amount of force to place them under arrest that can lead to civil suits alleging the officer use of excessive force. Police use of force is a controversial topic with not only the community as well as leadership in the department. Concerns about excessive and unnecessary uses of force continue to require the researcher to locate what indicators police officers react to when the application of using force or threaten to use force.

Dissatisfied officers, through a survey, complain the job is dissatisfying, morale is low, response time is lengthy, citizen complaints are up, more disability claims are being filed, and the turnover rate exceeds projections. Through this survey Captain Strong has the ‘why’ portion of the problem. This is the first step in designing a program that can help meet departmental and employee needs. Through the six patrol officer’s feelings found in the survey, it seems the best approach to a resolution revolves around changing one policy; the policy that states no more than two officers can take a break or meet at one time. Every complaint the police officers have revolves around low morale and the best way to raise morale is to connect people. In this case, allow officers to meet more than just at roll-call and in backup situations. Making the department more of a social entity will not solve everything on its own. Negativity has the potential to spread like wild fire so it is imperative that Captain Strong adopt a motivational strategy that will help reduce negativity in a more group-oriented atmosphere (More, Vito & Walsh, 2012).

What “problem” officers are is officers who either have a record of being abusive or have many records of complaints from the public. These type of officers should be receiving special monitoring, training, and counseling in order to prevent that they will not be involved in any other future incident of misconduct and brutality. Many people disagree on whether or not officers should be given that “second chance” because of their crimes. This is a debate going on for officers who have used unnecessary violence against people and people are wondering if they should be getting any special treatments. Some believe that they shouldn’t be working for the government anymore because it is not fair for them to commit a crime and not have a harsh punishment.

burnout, and cynicism. As stated in Steven et al (2015) police officers set apart their conventional identity to adapt to a new one they use in the work force. The workplace identity that an officer assumes is usually encompasses a “we versus them” attitude with the “we” being fellow police officers and the “them” being everyone else. They follow standards such as don’t tell anyone more than they need to know, keep out of the way of bosses outside or your precinct, don’t trust new guys until they have been checked out, don’t trust boss to look out for your best interst, and don’ talk too much or too little according to Steven et al (2015). All of these things are a part of the police culture.

It is important that law enforcement officers are able to handle stress and build his or her zone of stability. Officers have a ready-made support system in each other. They better understand the special problems and feelings that come with the job that friends and family members don't. That doesn't necessarily mean that this relationship with their fellow officers will cure all. Sometimes, because of the "macho" image that police officers uphold, they will give back negative feedback in a situation where an officer needs comfort. For example, an officer shoots someone in the line of duty and is having an emotional struggle with it, and a fellow officer (who thinks he is supporting

The criminal justice system is made up of many fundamentals. Officers need to go through a variety of procedures in the hiring process, and once completed they need to go through a training academy. Many U.S. citizens have witnessed a broken criminal justice system throughout the years. Citizens observe officers causing a huge attempt of corruption. Corruption is occurring worldwide and is making our law enforcement system look unprofessional. Our criminal justice system is not all fully corrupted; only certain individuals are. Police get engaged with certain individuals and get brained wash with the mentality of doing the wrong choices and not getting caught because they know how the system works. The majority of law enforcement officers are competent, honest, professional, but there are some that use their license to steal and/or kill. Some police officers are involved with drug trafficking, involving innocent people with crimes, and causing harm to our society.

The organizational expressions differ among the Spokane, Portland, Houston, and Madison Police Departments because every police department focuses on their purpose of organization, defines what is important to that specific police department,and community, and establishes organizational goals to align with their practices and values (Cordner 2016, p. 48). These organizational expressions also differ among the departments based upon community needs and departmental capabilities (Cordner, 2016). It is imperative that each police department designs their own mission statement to benefit police employees and citizens (Cordner, 2016). The Spokane Police Department utilized service, pride, and dedication to provide organizational goals to their

Police mission, values, and vision statements often don't differ very much, but as in Spokane, a department may try to find a "hook," that is, something that ties the statements specifically to the agency. Spokane went with "Service, Pride, and Dedication" to match their acronym, SPD. Beyond that, the values statement tried to say what they stood for and believed in, whereas the vision statement spoke to what the agency aspired to in the future. None of these is necessarily any more important than the others. What is important is that these statements have shared meaning to organization members. If they are just some words on paper or the wall, they don't contribute very much to the organization's