Police Management Change Management Term Paper

sold to law enforcement as a way to implement stringent policing structure while at the same time ensuring that community safety is maintained at minimal cost to the department and without job loss or reductions in force due to economical policing practices. In addition the plan should be sold as a way for the police department to re-build it's reputation among community members, and strengthen its reputation for working in a productive and collaborative manner. The cost savings benefits of building a stronger community with less crime in an efficient manner should also be emphasized as a primary benefit of the program.

There are many opportunities existing that lend support for the plan. For example, the report notes that a number of juvenile gangs are evolving within the community, a problem that is new for a community that had been relatively stable in the past. The police department can gain support for the program by emphasizing the methods through which community policing can help reduce this alarming trend.Community members for example should know that they may help identify potential gang members and help police intervene to fight crime.

Public satisfaction with law enforcement was also reported as shrinking, further emphasizing the need for community intervention programs that involved the community and allowed the community to have a say in the way that daily operations run. Teams of law enforcement could work together with community members and juvenile as well as adult probation officers in order to maintain the integrity and well being of the community at large. Police agents and other law enforcement officials should work at gaining support for their initiatives at community meetings and other public gatherings where the turn out of community members is likely to….....