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In criminal justice organizational settings the effectiveness of the department solely relies on the managers understanding of organizational effectiveness, its measurements, theories, and how to manage their employees. Given that Marion County is the biggest county in the state of Indiana, there are numerous departments and personnel that are involved in its criminal justice system. Within the Marion County Superior Courts, there are different entities used to help supervise offender pre and post-trial. Some of these entities consist of Marion County Community Corrects, Marion County Probation Department, and Marion County Jail. This paper will review the Marion County Probation Department’s organizational design, its effectiveness and recommendations

The movement from the former systems of policing to community policing system calls for major changes. These changes may be in terms of goals, aims, policies and activities of police units, as well as the general image portrayed by police force. Consequently, this movement bears an eminent amount of disagreements as well as resistance within the police force. The police officers and their managers are the major parties involved in the matter of resistance. The managers fear loss of power and authority to control their officers when they become community police, on the other hand the police officer do not welcome the new role of solving community problems (Rohe, Adams and Arcury, 2001). This is because they are used to the normal role of enforcing laws. The implementation process therefore demands training of police officers on their new roles.

Write a 300- to 500-word executive summary in which you analyze organizational behavior concepts associated with common managerial practices involved in day-to-day operations within criminal justice settings. Be sure to identify professional standards and values that apply across various components of the criminal justice system on a national level.

There are many important elements of organizational behavior in a criminal justice or security agency. These elements of organizational behavior are guidelines to organization hire valuable employees with values, morals, and ethnics. Commitment to ethical behavior one of the elements among others that will be discuss in this paper. Commitment to ethical behavior is when unethical behavior and illegal business practice in an organization is publicized. This is element that is use in the criminal justice and security agencies because the public and businesses trust the agencies to perform their duties with professionalism, morality, and diligence. The public sees through the media about police officer who have been caught breaking the law

Criminal Justice Administrators must be analytical and creative while looking at the needs of the people from the public’s perspective. Administrators can use corrective tools to identify objectives to meet and improve on. For example, Visual management allows Criminal Justice Administrators to realize that waste will always be present allowing room to improve performance. Administrators must take time to understand what creates a defect and what creates an opportunity. It is the responsibility of the Administrator to provide opportunities and incentives for employees. This will cause employees to become energized about hearing the voice of the customers. The presence of quality provides an opportunity for all employees to become knowledgeable and involved in meeting the needs of

Throughout the years executives from the police department has been trying to find strategies to improve policing in our society. According to the history there are three eras of policing; the political era, the reform era and lastly the problem solving era in which we are in today. The political era began in the early 19th century (1840’s – 1900’s) and was dominated by the local political leaders which opened the door of corruption through politics. During this time the community along with politicians demanded foot patrol as a method to control disorder. In the late 19th and 20th century the reform era took place, the prohibition had a major impact during this era because it led to the organized crime and revolutionary groups to arise and

The principle role of police organizations is to uphold and enforce the law. Police organizations achieve this by safeguarding life and property, maintaining public order, and through detecting and preventing crime. Policing at the state level is composed of separate police organizations. At the state level we have the City or Local Police, County Sheriff and State Police, also known as Highway Patrol or State Troopers. The U.S. government gives each state the authority to self-govern so each state has its own Penal Codes and every state policing organization follows its own Penal Code. Policing at the Federal level is composed of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Secret Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Federal policing agencies oversee all federal laws.

Numerous police agency’s and police officials work on a distinctive local, state, and federal level and role. It has its individual area, sectors, and function, and work according to local streets parts inside policing. In order for any local, state, and federal police division to work successfully it must hire chiefs, deputy’s, and sheriffs who retain leadership and who uses creative thinking skills to teach comprehensive, and aggressive instruction to make the police division a tougher department by holding all its workers tasks for doing his or her job according to its agency’s guidelines and procedures known as code of conduct. “Municipal police work for municipalities such as towns or cities, county police and deputy sheriffs work for counties, state police work for states, and federal police work for the federal government. Some have the same duties as one another or very similar duties, and some have different or additional duties. Their jurisdiction is sometimes the main difference. For example, a municipal police officer normally has primary

Introduction There is a lot that goes into making up a police department here in the United States of America. Many experts have come up with different theories and factors that they believe can help run a police department in the most efficient manner. They develop these theories and focus them on certain aspects that they believe if more attention was devoted to would in the end result in a more efficient organization or company. Theories are not unanimously used by all police departments meaning that every police department in the United States uses different theories or ways to go about their business.

The agency, instituted by the council 63 years back, has done considerably well given the circumstances and challenges it is facing. With 155 sworn police officers and 70 civilian employees, the agency is becoming a fully-fledged unit. It has a low tenure force with over 30% of its officers having less than five years’ experience. The members of the council hired their friends which in a way may lower the qualification level of unit at large. With its inception, the agency has experienced and is still experiencing a couple of problems. Foremost is the rising population which is not in synch with the expansion of agency. Worse still the rising population is majorly composed of a poor population.

In conclusion, through the many reforms of the police in America, there is need to find a constant policing system that is effective throughout centuries. Police have carried many duties including; enforcing laws, apprehending criminals, assisting and supporting the community. The view of police function is changing as society evolves. The police functions need to include a social contract between the people and the organization. The function of police comes directly from the social contract with the government and the citizens. However, even with the understanding that police agencies’ responsibility it to provide protection as expected, the citizens do not agree to give up their constitutional rights.

Dobbs, C., & Field, M. (1993). Leaders vs. managers: The law enforcement formula. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 62(8), 22-25.

Line-level law enforcement officers, investigators supervisors, and police executives are more educated and sophisticated with technology in their arsenal to enhance job performance. Despite having better education, training, equipment, access to specialized resources, and information, law enforcement agencies struggle with sharing power with their workforce. The result of this failure to modernize leaves law enforcement officers going through the motions and working at less than maximum efficiency.

The city of Harburg has the total population of 160,000 with thriving agriculture service sector. Analysis of the police management system in the city reveals that the law enforcement agents in the city do not possess modern management skills which could assist them to manage the crimes rates and the issue is making them to face series of operational and organizational challenges.

Police is one of the important law enforcing agencies to control the pace of crime and law and order situation. Subordinate Police Officers are the key role players in this context. At present, crime is increasing; the criminal justice system is cracking under heavy workload; society’s expectations from the police are high but the police’s status and resources, working and living conditions leave a lot to be desired. Moreover, the law enforcers are encountering some humanitarian issues and limited facilities.