Leadership And The Ability Of Influence Change

The Community Policing era has been one of the contemporary police activities in the last 30 years. It is more of a decentralized approach to reducing crime by involving the same officer in the same community on a long term basis, so residents will develop trust and then provide information and assistance to the officer. Community Policing does not replace motorized patrol or other police tactics but instead compliments them with community partnership and problem solving (Bailey, 2011).

Law Enforcement officers have one of the most critical jobs in the United States. Their lives are always on the line and they are of high regards. This means they cannot fail! The results of their jobs do not only depend on their actions but also on the people. What this means is the community has a huge role when it comes to solving crime. Though many people may not believe it, they are the key to a successful crime prevention community. The people of the United States don’t really understand both the positive and negative effects that community policing actually brings. Some may say it is very dangerous based on their experiences. Others may say it’s the best way to do away with crime. Today the two will be compared and put to test by true officers serving our country. The facts will be stated and questions will be answered. Let’s take a look at what community policing is really all about!

Policing and the way they operate are truly similar as if they are hand in hand with one another. In order for operations to run smoothly and the department to be functioning as one there has to be proper training and care from the supervisors, administrators and from everyone who works together to understand that they’re a team. Everyone in the police department has to work together instead of against one another just to make sure everyone is doing their jobs by the books with no room for errors.

Both lieutenants have worked for the agency more than 10 years and are familiar with many aspects that can influence employee retention. Detective Sergeant Jimmy Courtney is supervisor over the criminal investigation division and has worked for the agency for 10 years in several positions. He has expertise in the agency workings through working several years as a patrol officer and working closely with the patrol division. Sgt. Courtney has the ability to influence decisions but not approve change. As facilitator, I have worked for the agency for more than 18 years and worked in the criminal investigation division for 10 years, where I worked closely with the patrol division. The past 8 years I have worked in the administration division and where I work closely with all the agencies division and have insider data that can assist with determining what components and factors have influenced the decrease in employee retention over the past three years.

Community policing is where law enforcement officers become familiar with the surrounding community and the surrounding citizens that live there. This was created so that the surrounding community and law enforcement officers can become sort of like a family unit of closeness in order to create a safe environment to live in, to try and reduce the crime rate within the surrounding area, to try and reduce the fear of law enforcement officers, gain the respect and trust that is needed/wanted and lastly to try and reduce the fear that citizens may have towards the community they live in.

The focus of community-oriented policing is not simply on response, but on preventing crime and resolving community problems. This philosophy rests on the belief that the police and the community must work together as partners to solve the contemporary challenges faced in today 's society. (Community Policing Philosophy)

“My biggest accomplishment was to be a district commander. Out of 3,500 people there are only 22 district commanders, and I was one of them.” Stuart Shaver, Illinois State Police officer said during an interview. The majority of people will choose the career that they can get a good income in, even though they don’t like that job, but for Shaver he got the career that he likes and a great income for his family. This occupation is not easy, many cases of crimes and accidents are involved in this job along with the duty to help and keep the peace within the community. A great strength and effort are needed in order to do this job, and Shaver never gives up on it, instead he loves it and see it as a part of his life. Shaver loves his job because he likes to protect and help people who are in need and his

Community Policing is a value system which infuses a police department, in which the main organizational goal is working helpfully with individual citizens, groups of citizens, and both public and private organizations to identify and resolve issues which possibly effect the livability of specific neighborhoods, areas, or the city as a whole. Community policing can be beneficial to communities. Community policing can help prevent crimes from occurring. As officers get to know a community, they also get to know what is right and wrong with it. Typically, officers remain entitled to an area where crime happens often and as such they are left with fighting it as it is going or after it happened. In community policing neighborhoods, the officers are able to tell what might happen and as

Measure the effectives of what I have learned over the past 90 days Foster a culture that supports new ideas Foster officers’ professional growth Cross train officers on precinct beats Improve and maintain a work environment that officers enjoy Show and communicate to officers improvements Stay updated on current case law Read two books about effective leadership for police supervisors

In community policing, officers need to work with citizens to put a hold on crime. In the past officers have tried to solve all the community issues on their own (Ortmeier, 2006). However, it came to be that officers essential to the citizens, was also vice versa. Officers learnt that to be effective in solving crimes, that they too needed help. Police officers have always looked at serving the community has part of the job description. As has the citizens looked at the officer to “protect and serve”, and to keep the community safe. With community policing, it focuses on relationships of trust, with cooperation between both. With the majority of police departments incorporating community policing, it has changed the relationships between

There are multiple approaches to engaging a police force with the community in order to most effectively prevent and respond to crime, and considering the relative strengths and weakness of each of these strategic models will demonstrate how models can impact the operation of daily policing practices and activities. The model under discussion here is called community oriented policing (COP), and focuses on building relationships and rapport between officers and the community in order to more effectively prevent crime. It is augmented by a model called problem solving policing (PSP), and depends upon rank-and-file officers identifying community problem areas through direct observation and analysis. Each model excels at slightly different things, and in practice most police agencies deploy a mix of models. By examining the Miami-Dade Police Department's handbook for school resource officers, it will be possible to view a COP/PSP policy in action in order to better understand how these models practically affect policing.

Community policing is a policy and a strategy aimed at achieving more effective and efficient crime control, reduced fear of crime, improved quality of life, improved police services and police legitimacy, through a proactive reliance on community resources that seeks to change crime causing conditions. This assumes a need for greater accountability of police, greater public share in decision-making and greater concern for civil rights and liberties.

In the Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change (2013), the authors tell us that in order to master influence, we must use their six-source model to effectively impact change. As a part of this model, this paper will compare and contrast Social Ability and Social Motivation as a way to influence change while giving background on the two social aspects of changing vital behaviors.

In reviewing Peel’s Principles of Law Enforcement, the first principle listed states, “The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder as an alternative to the repression of crime and disorder by military force and severity of legal punishment.” This principle basically means that the police are in place to prevent crime from happening with the use of military style enforcement, and to punish such criminals swiftly and severely by legal means. This relates to community policing today in that the police are in place to curb criminal behavior and maintain order in the community. More so than any other type of police force, campus police forces exist solely to deter criminal activities. There are guards present at all times. If one

This chilling fact does allow me to feel safer knowing that there are sixty men and women who are here to protect and serve this community who have so much training under their belt. Knowing Chief Perry’s story of how he eventually became the Assistant Vice President of Safety and Chief of Police at Florida State University gives me the courage to taken on whatever life throws at me not only in my career, but also in my daily routine. He inspired me to become more conscious of not only my surroundings, but also about the decisions I make. The decisions I make can stick with me for a lifetime and it only takes one wrong choice to set you back in life. However, just like Chief Perry when he had his accident he did not let that small mistake set him back in his career goals. He said how he always wanted to work in the city of Tallahassee and although his career goals would be put on hold for the time being he continued to push forward and achieve as much as he could with where he was at. He continued to persevere until one day he was finally given the opportunity to not only work in the city of Tallahassee, but also be the Vice President of Safety and Chief of Police for the Florida