This book identifies police leaders who have stood out and chalked a path that has transformed their organizations. It describes these thinkers, who look deep into the challenges of policing and comment critically upon various responses and actions.
Featuring profiles of police leaders from various countries, this book features officers with an aptitude for learning, presenting the situations they have confronted and the methods they have adopted to change systems and usher reforms. It identifies the characteristics of thinking police officers, and suggests the ways in which the serious policing challenges of modern times can be addressed by creative and outside the box thinking by leadership.
Appropriate for students of criminal justice and policing, for researchers studying law enforcement and for practitioners discussing policing reform, this book will initiate a new debate about the nature and possibilities of building new police for the 21st century.
Author(s): Arvind Verma, Dilip K. Das
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 248
City: Cham
Some Thoughts and Reflections
Contents
About the Authors
How Do We Recognize Police Leader-Thinkers?
Police Leader-Thinkers in the Early Twenty-First Century
Perspectives From the Leadership Literature
The Lists of Attributes of Police Leaders: Character and Competencies
Perspectives of Canadian Police Leaders
The Police Organizational Culture as a Barrier to Police Leaders Being Thinkers
Challenging the Status Quo
Open-Mindedness and Humility
Empowering Officers and Staff in the Police Organization and Creating an Organizational Environment of Innovation
Risk Aversion and Risk-Taking
Thought Processes of Thinking Police Leaders
The Role of Training and Education
Creating Thinkers in the Police Organization
Going Forward
Appendix A: Police Leaders as Thinkers Project
Interview Topics
References
Police Leaders as Thinkers: Interview with Chief Theresa Tobin, Chief of Interagency Operations, NYPD
What Makes the Best Police Leader?
Interview With Chief Theresa Tobin, NYPD
Thoughts on Chief Tobin and Policing
References
Police Leadership: A Learning Experience
Introduction
Leadership: What Is It?
The Development of Policing as a Profession
The Professionalism of Policing
Policing: Continuity and Change
Recruitment, Training, and Retention of Law Enforcement Officers
Crisis in Recruitment of Police Officers
Organizational Changes in the Personnel of Police Organizations
Police-Community Relationships, Including Collaboration
Citizen Involvement in Policing
Collaborative Policing in Response to Disaster Situations and Threats to Security
Police Leadership in Crisis Situations
Police Search for Missing in the Wake of Ida Flooding
Police Leadership in Responding to Internal and External Threats
Commissioner Harrison Interview
Police Leaders: Preparing for the Future
Police Leaders Collaboration with Non-Policing Professionals
Police Collaboration with the Community in Crime Prevention Programs
Problems and Issues Facing Police Leaders
Summary
References
The Thought Police: The Need for Police Leaders as Thinkers
Introduction
What Do We Mean by Thinking in Policing?
Thinking as Decision-Making
Thinking as Reflection
Thinking as Leadership
Thinking About Thinking in Policing: The Interview
Thinking of the Future
References
Relational Policing at an Inflection Point: A Need for Police Leaders as Thinkers
Introduction
Looking Back to Look Ahead
The Leadership of Black Police Intellectuals as Institutional Reformers
Dr. Lee Brown: A Case Study of Police Leader as Thinker
Where Do We Go from Here? Implications for Research and Practice
Research
Conclusion
References
The Contribution of the “Super Evidence Cop”; Key Role of Police Leaders in Advancing Evidence-Based Policing
Introduction
The Super Evidence Cop
Former Commissioner Alsheich from Israel and the “EMUN” Reform
Commissioner Mal Hyde of South Australia Police (SAPOL)
Former Chief Jim Bueermann: Redlands (CA) Police Department (RPD)
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Interview with [Former] General Commissioner of the Israel Police – Roni Alsheich
Darrel Stephens: An American Police Leader with Vision
Police Leadership
Brief Overview of Darrel Stephens’ Career
A Uniquely American Police Career
The Police Leader as Thinker
Why Darrel?
Conclusion
References
Thinking Police Leader in India: Case Study of Dr. Pradnya Saravade, IPS
Introduction
IPS Cadre
Training
Challenges of Policing India
Role of IPS Leadership
Dr Pradnya Saravade
Policing as Public Service
Policing Perspectives of Pradnya
Setting Up of Mohalla Panchayats
Setting Up of Mumbai Cyber Lab, 2004
Securities and Exchange Board of India [SEBI]
Strategy Support System for Police Decision-Makers
References
Hirofumi Ichise: A Japanese Thinker Police Leader
Introduction
Structure and Power of Japanese Police Organization
Japanese Police and Its Regulatory Organizations
Ranks
Authorized Strength
Organizational Charts
Current Issues
New Crime Trends
Retention and Promotion of Female Police Officers
Japanese Police Career Path
Police Training System
Secondment to the NPA
Discussions on Police Leadership in Japan
Commissioner Hirofumi Ichise
Path to Assistant Commissioner
Crackdown on the Yakuza
References
Police, Race, Crime, and Leadership: Interview with William J. Bratton
Introduction
Notes
Conclusion
Thinking Leader
Police Leader as Thinker
Case Studies of Thinking Police Leader
Epilogue
Appendix I
Appendix II
References
Index
