Basic Concepts in Police Agency Operations

Basic Concepts in Police Agency Operations
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Basic Concepts in Police Agency Operations
A police agency has bureaucratic inclinations due to its military framework of operation. The key elements making a police department a bureaucratic entity include duties and tasks specialization, positions’ objective qualifications, actions as per regulations and rules, and hierarchical authority structure (CliffNotes, 2020). The elements of the police agency's basic bureaucratic and organizational structure include management, organizing, planning, controlling, leading, and chain of command. Management facilitates the directing of officers to attain organizational objectives effectively and efficiently. Planning enables preparation for the future by objectives and goals setting and designing courses of action to accomplish them. Organizing enables police leaders to arrange physical and human resources to implement plans and attain the objectives and goals. Leading services to motivate police officers to execute tasks and thus contribute to objectives and goals realization. The controlling element facilitates effectiveness and efficiency within the police department. The chain of command is a bureaucratic element that enables the delineation of position, power, influence, and authority that an individual possesses within the police agency (Novak et al., 2021).
The chain of command or scalar principle is an explicit delineation of authority ...