Police Management: The Past Twenty Years and the Next Twenty (From Research Leaders in Policing: Symposium Proceedings, P 3-12, 1989, Donald J. Loree, ed., -- See NCJ-122545

• NCJ Number: 122546
• Author(s): R F Lunney
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 10 pages
• Sale Source: Canadian Police College
• Publication Type: Conference Material
• Language: English
• Country: Canada

Annotation

This document provides an historical perspective of police management in Canada.

Abstract

In 1967, police managers were the product of internal cultures where the norms were rigidity of thought and structure, observance of traditional patterns of behavior, and the expectation of conformity. During the following years, educational standards for police recruits were raised and a new future orientation began to emerge at the senior levels of police departments. Computer based information and control systems offered better data for decisionmaking at more timely intervals. Police associations and unions succeeded in raising wages and improving benefits for their membership. The police manager of the future faces a variety of challenges, such as the effect of the AIDS epidemic, the breakdown of the traditional family, and the continuing destructive effects of drugs and alcohol. Police have an important even pivotal role to play in making and molding the future of Canada, but only if enlightened management possesses the foresight and skill to make it so.