LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

Law Enforcement Agency



Law Enforcement Agency

Answers of the four questions

Q1. Outline a plan for creating a culture of collaboration within a law enforcement agency. Provide examples of interventions that could be used to address specific problems within an organizational culture?

Ans1- It is quite important to develop a culture of collaboration within a law enforcement agency. A specific plan would be needed in order to implement a proper collaboration within a law enforcement agency. To develop collaboration, leaders assemble groups such as steering committees, working groups, task forces, or a Friday morning breakfast club. To build productive work groups that include people from diverse backgrounds, leaders must pay careful attention to recruitment, communication, empowerment, and leadership development of team members. This work requires that they draw on the understanding of self and others described under personal leadership and use it to deal with predictable tensions of collaboration around purpose, power, membership, and structure. (Bartel, 1975)

Effective recruitment requires thinking about the needed expertise and connections that need to be represented on the team. In the case of an initiative to combat climate change, a wise leader is likely to want someone with relevant scientific expertise and ties to prominent authorities on climate change. Wise leaders may also seek experts in consumer habits, public relations, environmental laws, and the political process and may want to be sure that at least some team members have skills that compensate for leaders' own areas of weakness—perhaps they are strong on emotional intelligence, but a bit weak on systems thinking (an element of cognitive complexity). While recruiting people, they need expertise and connections, however, wise leaders still will seek evidence that, despite their diversity, they can agree generally on the importance of fighting human-induced global warming. Stakeholder analysis is a useful tool for deciding who should be a part of a team to tackle complex problems. (Block, 1975)

Mediation is a process in which a “third party neutral” helps group members understand each other's interests, values, and emotional responses and create an agreement that resolves or manages the conflict. Effective team leadership also helps the team develop its own identity (for example, through rituals and symbols) that can offset members' allegiance to their home organizations. Leaders will take care to ensure that new team members are brought up to speed on the team's previous work and included in the rituals. Finally, effective leaders may foster shared leadership in the group by parceling out leadership tasks such as meeting facilitation or crafting a vision statement. They may organize leadership training for group members so they all become skilled facilitators and project organizers. Therefore, this is the whole outline of the map. (Clotfelter, 1977)

2. Describe strategies for enhancing various types of learning in law enforcement agencies. How would you suggest measuring the impact of these strategies?

Ans2- Although not technically a legal term, the phrase legal systems conceptualizes the distinctive manner in which a particular society's laws are administered and depicts the various historical traditions, body of ...