Police mission : challenges and responses /

Das, Dilip K., 1941-

Police mission : challenges and responses / Dilip K. Das, Arvind Verma. - Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (vii, 252 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.

Police mission, ideals, and values -- Inferences from excellent companies -- Perspectives on police culture -- Autobiographical perspectives -- Multicultural perspectives -- Image of American policing -- The armed police in British colonial tradition -- The colonial beginnings of the Indian police -- Comparative organizational perspectives -- Street cops -- Organizational diagnosis -- Human values & police leadership -- Innovations and experimentations -- Police as a learning organization.

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What is the best management style for the police? Police Mission discusses the values and norms inherent in the American police mission, and examines how police respond to challenges that arise while attempting to uphold this mission. It reveals that the way officers are being trained in ethics and human relations are not effective as they could be, and argues that policing has to move towards a greater emphasis on human values, moral sensitivity, and discerning judgment. A large number of themes ranging from personnel management, occupational culture, and innovative experiments in US poli.


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