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High Performance Police Management: a Source Book

NCJ Number
115587
Author(s)
P McDonald; R Wasserman
Date Published
1988
Length
427 pages
Annotation
This document provides 17 readings assigned in a 3 day seminar designed to expose the police middle manager to state-of-the-art police management concepts being used in the United States, particularly in drug law enforcement and community oriented policing.
Abstract
The sourcebook provides biographies of the seminar's facilitators and its agenda. Objectives, instructional techniques, group exercises, and content of the 17 individual sessions are summarized. The papers range from an overview of a high performance management model to case studies of selected urban policing problems. Career criminal programs, drug trafficking disruption such as Operation Pressure Point in New York City, and drug stings in Miami are among the successful programs profiled. Broad issues and practices in State and local drug law enforcement are examined, as are Federal guidelines on seized and forfeited property. The seminar and its readings examine community oriented policing and contrast it to problem oriented policing. Programs in Houston and Baltimore County, Md. are among those highlighted.