After outlining a realistic MBO model suitable for police departments, the text discusses leadership skills and work motivation. It explains the wide choice of management styles available to patrol administrators and skills needed to motivate the contemporary patrol officer. The book suggests that managers use transactional analysis to identify personality types and deal more effectively with people. Classic organizational theories are reviewed, and patrol organization, planning, and specific patrol techniques are addressed. Also discussed are the patrol problems involved in special operations such as stakeouts and snipers, the patrol officer's role in criminal investigation, and factors involved in evaluating patrol performance. Also covered are techniques of patrol personnel allocation and management responses to social change. Charts, references, a sample firearms policy, and an index.