Proactive Police Management

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

Based upon the authors' extensive experience in teaching, policing, and management, this introduction to management in the day-to-day rigors of a police department stresses that management is only effective if it is based upon a combination of both theory and practice. Proactive rather than reactive in approach, it shows how successful police managers anticipate events through planning, use police personnel and resources effectively, and deliver a whole range of police services to the community. Chapter topics include the consultative style and various approaches of management; community policing and problem-oriented policing; basic operating principles; leadership styles; internal and external communication skills; the patrol function; training; proactive technology; human resource management and general personnel issues; and auxiliary function. For current and future police managers and administrators.

467 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.