POLICE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Police Performance Evaluation



Police Performance Evaluation

Introduction

Among other things, police departments can be seen as producing organizations: They take resources from their environment, and they use those resources to produce results. In general, citizens give police departments two key resources they need to operate: money and the authority of the state. Using their professional expertise, the police deploy these resources through a particular, set of activities, such as patrol, criminal investigation, and traffic enforcement. These activities, in turn, produce an immediate set of results: surveillance of public spaces, rapid response to calls for service, arrests, and citations. These immediate results are, in turn, thought to be related to socially desirable results such as reduced crime, reduced traffic fatalities, and the justice we associate with calling offenders to account. When we think of police departments as organizations that spend valuable resources to produce results, it is natural to wonder about the value produced by the organization relative to the costs of providing it. This requires us to think about what we should recognize and count as the valuable results produced by a police organization.

Performance Evaluation Instrument

The primary purpose of our research is firstly to analyze the mechanisms that constructed to evaluate, assess, monitor (monitoring / control), both performance and efficiency of front-line patrol officers. The ultimate purpose of this research aims, through a qualitative methodology with stakeholder, to develop an ideal reference for evaluating the performance and productivity, or a theoretical model of policing in the context of work inspired by the idea of community policing. Considering the multitude of approaches and strategies that linked, we will conduct an overview of the state of knowledge about them, as well as evaluating their effectiveness and efficiency. We will respond to these strategies in those who have the potential to generate relevant dimensions for assessing the performance of the patrol officers. (Vessel, 2008)

Assessment

In a systemic perspective of police organizations, the assessment component of individual performance is an important and strategic variable to be collected in a report interconnected and interdependent with other components in place in a police organization regardless of size. This concept underlies that when one wishes to modify or act on a component such as performance evaluation, it is necessary to consider the influence of which is the object and that it causes in the other components. In other words, to propose a major modification to the system of individual performance assessment involves the fact major changes at all other levels of the organization. Also, keep in mind that even the most careful design cannot afford to provide any and all adjust perfectly. Therefore, the proposed change must incorporate sufficient flexibility to be able to adjust throughout the implementation and the nature of the project site. (Shuy, 2008)

Implimentation of Evaluation Instrument

We propose in what follows a typical project of change for implementing a system of evaluation of individual performance, in line with the conclusions of the literature review and design of the three groups consulted for this ...