POLS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neighborhood Watch
5 May 2018
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-Planning, Programming, and Budgeting
-How do police administration conceptualizae planning, programming and budgeting
-How are these activities carried uout?
-What challenges do administrators face in these activities?
-What external influences and oversight exists in these activites?
-Planning
-Deciding what the dept should be doing
-Affords a degree of preparedness and increases the likelihood of accomplishing goals
-Linking to current activities to future conditions
-The act of decision making regarding operational activities based on anticipated
contingencies
-Programming
-Translating the plan into an actionable strategy
-Some examples of police agency programming include data collection and analysis,
operation identification, neighborhood watch programs, intensified patrols, or
community policing initiatives
-Budgeting
-Acquiring and managing fiscal resources
-An important component of planning, it is the fiscal plan for resource acquisition and
management, and is directly related to program feasibility
-Forecasting
-Research and analysis of trends to forecast future state and minimize uncertainty; how
e’e doe, hat e eed to do
-An effort to reduce uncertainty about the future by predicting environmental
conditions so they can be addressed through departmental programming
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-Strategic Planning
-Programmatic and deals with determining how the department should achieve
its policy goals and objectives
-Ioles the departet’s adiistratio, plaig uit, ad diisio coaders
-How do we achieve our goals?
-Identify the problem
-Identify alternative strategies (review, search, design with a free form
demeanor)
-The more alternatives, the more likely that an effective alternative will
be selected for implementation
-Review
-Refers to the examination of current and past organizational
arrangements and activities to determine if any are appropriate
for dealing with the problem at hand
-Searching
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Document Summary
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