Proactive Police Management

by Edward A. Thibault, Lawrence M. Lynch, R. Bruce McBride

Required Reading for Civil Service Promotional Examinations

Proactive Police Management provides a review of the various approaches to police management using a contemporary and proactive approach. The seventh edition has been extensively revised, including new information on technology, operational and fiscal planning, management styles, training techniques, budgeting methods and national security concerns. It continues to balance planning and communication, theory and practice, and authoritative and participatory leadership approaches—emphasizing a consultative management style that enables all stakeholders to effectively anticipate, prevent, and react to crime within their community.

This book is used for training police supervisors and administrators and is required reading for civil service promotional examinations. The Prentice Hall's Test Prep Guide to Accompany Proactive Police Management (ISBN: 0-13-170126-6) is used in conjunction with this title to help law enforcement professionals prepare for their promotional exams.

•Shows how the combination of new proactive management techniques and the application of new technology are revolutionizing policing
•Covers traditional scientific management, the behavioral/systems approach, and the human relations approach
•Emphasizes community-policing, problem-oriented policing and intelligence-led policing
•Used for training police supervisors and administrators and is required reading for civil service promotional examinations

496 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Cak Muchtarom]

this book is very good and quite interesting. it's telling us much in servant police management. on other hand, we need more about how to develop police legitimation instead of procedural law enforcement.