| NCJ Number: |
122080   |
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| Title: |
Citizens' Advisory Committees and the Use of Nominal Group Techniques |
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| Journal: |
Police Chief Volume:11 Issue:56 Dated:(November 1989) Pages:71-72 |
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| Author(s): |
A W Cole |
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| Date Published: |
1989 |
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| Page Count: |
2 |
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| Sponsoring Agency: |
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Rockville, MD 20849-6000 |
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| Sale Source: |
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
United States of America |
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| Type: |
Program Description (Model) |
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| Format: |
Article |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United States of America |
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| Annotation: |
One way to formalize the process of obtaining citizen input for police policy and develop a coordinated police response is through the use of nominal group technique (NGT) with a citizen advisory committee. |
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| Abstract: |
The NGT process has three goals: to systematically obtain citizen input into the police function, identifying special interests and communitywide needs; to bring together the diverse groups to enhance mutual understanding and foster commitment to common goals; and to develop better police-community relations through improved interaction. NGT should be used only for judgmental or creative decisionmaking. It involves four steps: silent generation of ideas, round-robin recording of those ideas, discussion, and prioritization. NGT allows for maximum feasible participation by group members in the decisionmaking process by avoiding the dominance of group output by strong personality types and allowing all participants the opportunity for influencing the direction of the group decision outcome. The article concludes with a description of how the community of Delray Beach, Fla., used NGT in the context of a citizen advisory committee to obtain citizen input on law enforcement issues and priorities. 4 footnotes. |
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| Main Term(s): |
Citizen advisory committees |
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| Index Term(s): |
Community control of police; Florida; Police community relations |
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