POLS 4900 Lecture 7: 7
5 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
-Control
-Ensuring that an event occurs as it was planned to occur
-Control in police administration
-The process of regulating organizational activities so that performance
ofors to epetatios… held the departet’s adiistrators as
well as those held the departet’s ostitue.
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-If ou epet it, ispet it
-To what degree do we need/want to set up processes to check the checkers or inspect
the inspectors?
-Control is expensive in that it requires that it requires the investment of personnel and
resources to supervise, manage, and inspect. Administrators should weigh the potential
costs of control against the potential benefits when making decisions regarding control
plans and implementation
-Also maintaining a balance between under-control and over-control is a challenge
-Excessive control reduces employee initiative and morale
-Both formal and informal constraints influence the control function
-Formal Constraints
-The granting authorities that provide the department and its legitimacy impose
these formal constraints
-Constitutions
-Laws
-Ordinance
-Guidelines
-Policies
-Budgets
-Contracts and other legal documents
-Informal Constraints
-Communities develop expectations of their police, and the police must stive to
meet these expectations
-Special interest groups
-Powerful
-Political Elite
-Media
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Document Summary
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