POLS 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Polskie Radio Program I, Telephone Tapping, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3600
• Professor: Ethan Boldt

Document Summary

Organization of the police: most agencies follow a military style of organization with a chain of command, police agencies are bureaucracies: designed with a division of labor, authority structure, and rules to promote efficiency and fairness. Public bureaucracy: the organizational description of police departments" design and operations that seek to achieve efficiency through division of labor, chain of command, and rules to guide staff. Police departments are bureaucracies designed to achieve objectives efficiently and, like most bureaucracies are characterized by a division of labor, a chain of command with clear lines of authority, and rules to guide the activities of staff. Patrol units: the core operational units of local police departments that deploy uniformed officers to handle the full array of police functions for service, order maintenance, and law enforcement: chain of command. Four issues arise in the organizational context within which the police operate: the police are the gateway through which information and individuals enter the justice system.