First Line Supervisors

Law enforcement agencies spend tremendous resources recruiting and hiring new officers. Before recruits can become law enforcement professionals, they must undergo comprehensive tests, severe background examinations, and extensive physical training sessions. Regardless of the complications associated with identifying and training recruits, it seems that numerous police agencies throughout the nation are having difficulty retaining their officers. Many of the officers no longer are satisfied with their jobs, agencies or maybe their managers. With the loss of many police officers not only does it create significant economic problems for the agencies, but they lower confidence and minimize public safety. While a number of factors contribute to

There is the First-Line Supervisors (sergeants), Middle Managers (captains and lieutenants), and Executive Management (chief, commissioner, sheriff). All of these managers play an important role towards how they influence police officers. Starting with the role of the first-line supervisor which directly administer and coordinates activities of members of police force. The sergeant achieves this task by talking straight forward to the officers he or she supervises to confirm responsibility and performance objectives. Furthermore, due to the first-line supervisor 's close communication with the officers, they are the main key in identifying and reducing wrongdoing incidents in a police

The leadership or lack of leadership displayed by a sergeant can effect on how the organization is seen by the community. The rest of the management can have great goals and objectives, but if the first-line supervisor 's leadership ability weren’t as good than his or her subordinates toward the implementation of those goals, would be just plain ideas. "Sergeants must be able to organize, plan and evaluate their officers to reach department objects. Frustrated police personnel can lead to negative productivity." (Baker, 2000, chap 5, p. 89). The first-line supervisor has to be able to see when there is a problem occurring and be able to find solutions in order for their department to grow as an organization. Hence, as police organizations have evolved and greater stress has been placed on the goals management and supervision, researchers have placed a greater emphasis on how managers and supervisors have a lot to do with the behavior that police officers tend to have. It is believed that if change where to occur in supervisory styles, many organizations wouldn’t be affected by the officer’s decision and overall there would be much more respect towards one another in the