Technology
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Cross-jurisdictional and cross-disciplinary events have become more significant in recent years. These events have enhanced the need for an effective means of on-scene communication and information ex...
Recruitment & Personnel
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Police executives face the consequences of mental and tactical mistakes made by police officers during difficult events. Accurate judgment and effective decision making by police officers under stress...
Recruitment & Personnel
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Building commitment for change is fundamental to successfully implementing change, but all too often it's a process that is ignored. In a time when changes due to technology, community expectations, w...
Leadership
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Successful police executives are driving organizational change through strategic management-an ongoing process that seeks opportunities to enhance operational efficiencies by identifying internal issu...
Recruitment & Personnel
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Many law enforcement agencies have long had policies or regulations regarding grooming standards for police officers. These agencies have argued that strict grooming standards are necessary to ensure ...
Recruitment & Personnel
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No two employees have the same ability or desire to do a given task. This finding was emphasized in the research on situational leadership conducted by Hershey and Blanchard several years ago as relat...
Community-Police Engagement
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In today’s mass-market media-driven society, it is becoming difficult to define ourselves before someone else does it for us. This is true for everything from laundry detergent to automobiles, a...
Community-Police Engagement
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Two years ago, the Washington State Patrol's disciplinary process, according to some employees and their unions, was punitive and vindictive, lacked empathy, and seemed designed to "get" employees rat...