Organizational police theory A police organization is the allocation of complexities and control in departments helps accomplish different goals. There are definitive parts regarding tasks, roles and styles of policing. These responsibilities differentiate throughout departments because of hierarchy and different occupations needed to make the division function effectively to accomplish both proximal and distal goals. Many different positions needed to operate indicate that everybody has a separate role, and every officer assigned that role has tasks, as well as their own style into completing their apportioned obligations. A police specific philosophy related to the organization of police is the appropriate organizational police theory. In this theory of policing agencies familiarizes themselves to their …show more content…
Understanding roles by members of the agency is important. Everybody has a role, and there is a purpose to every individual role relating to how goals of the organization are completed. For example, lieutenants, sergeants, patrol officers, and detectives all have separate roles in the association which helps make the functioning of the department more effective. Specialized units such as gang task forces and swat teams help with the functionality of the structure. Furthermore, an efficient chain of commands leadership is filling their “roles” proficiently it helps with the effectiveness of organizational policing.
Individual roles and group roles each have a task at hand. For an individual officer it may be patrolling, investigating, and responding to calls. A group role such as Gang units tasks are investigating local street gangs, identifying and putting known gang members and their monikers into a database, patrolling and other various activities related to gangs. Police officers are adapting to the roles they fill whether it be on an individual level or a group level and they are dynamic in satisfying these roles and concluding tasks on every