NCJ Number
160133
Date Published
1996
Length
473 pages
Annotation
This book aims to help current or potential police supervisors understand the skills, principles, and techniques involved in effective police supervision.
Abstract
A major aim of the text is to help supervisors understand differing beliefs and assumptions they hold about themselves, other police officers, the police agency, and society, as well as the impacts of these beliefs on supervisory practice. Each chapter begins with a case study detailing the background and actions of a police sergeant. Individual chapters explain the knowledge-based, human, conceptual, and affective skills required of supervisors; the expectations of management, subordinates, and peers; and the principles of supervision in community policing. Further chapters detail the principles and practical aspects of specific aspects of supervision, including interpersonal communications, motivation, leadership, discipline, performance appraisal, team-building, coping with change, the supervision of the difficult employee, internal accountability, labor relations, supervision of minorities, and police training. Additional case studies, figures, tables, forms, lists of main concepts, chapter discussion topics and questions, lists of readings, chapter reference lists, and subject and author indexes