ANGALEANA WILLIAMS, APRIL STONER,
CHRISTINA MAPLES, AND DESIREE BALLARD
CJA 214 - INTRODUCTION TO POLICE THEORY
AND PRACTICES
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
DR. STEWART STANFIELD
Major organizational theories associated
with policing
Describe the organization of police agencies
at the local, state, and federal level.
The civil service system and how it affects
police organization.
(Role Play)Chief of Police of local agency
How would the team organize the department?
Would it have many specialized units? Why?
Which specialized units would it have?
Would decision making be centralized or
decentralized?
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Organizational Theory
There are 3 theories that fall in this
category
1.
2.
3.
Contingency theory- organizations are created
or structured to achieve specific goals, such as
crime control
Institutional theory- organizations are social
institutions that operate in relation to their
external social and political environments
Resource dependency theory- organizations
must obtain resources to survive, and to obtain
resources, they must engage in exchanges with
other organizations in their environment
Management Theory
ensuring officers within department and the
community are being properly managed
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LOCAL/CITY
POLICE
STATE TROOPERS
-STATE POLICE
-HIGHWAY PATROL
COUNTY SHERIFF
FEDERAL BUREAU OF
INVESTIGATION (FBI)
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(CIA)
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY (DHS)
US MARSHAL
US SECRET SERVICE
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What
Who
is the Civil Service System?
establishes the system?
Authority
of the system
The two agencies of the Civil
Service System
Civil Service Agency
Police Department
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Personal
responsibilities
Pay scale set up
Recruitment procedures
Recruitment tests
Developing disciplinary
procedures
Police
department
responsibilities...