Essays on Police Leadership

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Identify a range of police leadership styles and discuss how the choice of each style influences organizational success.

Among the known police leadership styles include autocratic, bureaucratic and democratic. The autocratic style of leadership is a classic approach where the decision-making authority and power is only in the hand of the manager or the commander. Consultation among staff members is not part of this kind of leadership, while staff should follow every order from the boss without receiving any form of explanation. Leaders depend on punishments and threats to influence his staff. This style of leadership is effective especially in cases where there is new and untrained staff that ...

Abstract

Leadership is a critical component of such law enforcement agency as police. To make an efficient police leaders, the chiefs of police departments need to possess a wide scope of requisite traits like honesty, integrity, impartiality, flexibility, approachability, knowledge, and other features. Depending on personality attributes, senior police officials may adopt a wide range of leadership modes like transformation, transactional, mixed, active, role-modelling, situational, participative, passive, avoidant, and laissez-faire styles. Beyond that, police leaders are supposed to pursue a number of arch-important activities like the creation of a shared vision that produces the sense of purpose for subordinates, the cultivation of organizational commitment, the ...

Criminal Law

In this particular case, the communication process that was used by the police chief and the patrol division was not an effective method of communication. The act of the police officer in directing your secretary to post a memo that every road patrol officer is mandated to wear a bulletproof vest at all times effective immediately, without allowing the police officers to use their discretion signifies an autocratic type of leadership. There is a strong indication that the concerned parties did not undergo a dialogue to discuss their thoughts and sentiments regarding the daily use of bulletproof vests. Communication, negotiation and conflict resolution are ...

Executive Summary

Police force leaders have come to realize that the authoritarian styles of leadership are no longer effective in dealing with subordinates. Contemporary police leaders are urged to promote attitudes that facilitate innovative and creative thinking in a bid to form organizations capable of incorporating change in a transforming society. Though transformational style of leadership is recommended for the leaders in police, it is necessary for them to adapt their style to suit the context and this includes being in a position to offer active, directive leadership in certain situations. The traditional ‘leader as commander’ style of pervasive police leadership has been replaced ...