Police Foundations LAW250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ontario Provincial Police, Community Policing, Learning Organization
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Community policing requires both a philosophical shift in the way that police departments think about their mission, as well as a commitment to structural changes this new form of policing demands. Community requirements for community policing: community policing requires that police services re-examine all aspects of the organization, administration, and delivery of policing services, this requires time, vision, commitment, planning and an ability to question and assess outcomes constantly. The management challenge: police leaders must abandon traditional command and control practices and decentralize power, creation of a more participatory organizational environment, the ideas and requirements of line officers are incorporated into the decision making process. Mission, value and vision statements: set out the general principles for providing policing services, statements generally incorporate the basic tenets of community policing and reflect the general orientation of the police service. Police foundations-law250: for example, the vision of the ontario provincial police is safe communities, a secure.