Proactive Police Management, Third Edition

• NCJ Number: 225038
• Author(s): Edward A. Thibault Ph.D.; Lawrence M. Lynch M.P.A.; R. Bruce McBride Ed.D.
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 397 pages
• Sale Source: Prentice-Hall, Inc
• Publication Format: Book (Hardbound)
• Publication Type: Overview Text
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This edition provides a review, analysis, and synthesis of the various proactive approaches to police management.

Abstract

The approach of this text remains proactive, which means that it is more important than ever for the police manager to plan ahead and anticipate events. The text has been used to teach classes to future police supervisors and administrators, to manage and plan police departments, and to serve as a source for training police supervisors and administrators and as a source for civil service examination questions. It offers a review, analysis, and synthesis of the many approaches to police management, including traditional scientific management, the behavioral/systems approach, and the human relations approach. The text contains useful detail concerning basic organization and management skills for police managers and students of police management. There is a constant theme of being proactive throughout the text: planning ahead, anticipating the future, and establishing some control for police managers over those future events. Divided into five sections, the beginning chapters review the history of law enforcement management and examine some traditional management models in the light of this historical perspective. This is followed with a review of some general concepts that have stood the test of time and have proven to be of both theoretical and practical use to police managers. There is a focus on how the informal norms and group structures operate in a police agency which affects the day-to-day operations and management concerns. Police management and operations continue to be in a state of flux with the continued development of community and problem-oriented policing. While there are many traditions inherent in police management and operations, public demand for services and new technology create new opportunities for managers and students to challenge existing concepts and create new solutions and innovations. Key terms, bibliography, figures, tables, and index