Assignment:
- What is the typical sequence of events involved in the employee grievance process?
- Explain the budget cycle and the four sequential steps critical for a top police executive to maintain during the budget year.
- Assume you have been assigned to conduct an audit of a municipal police department that has been awarded a state and federal grant to reduce driving while intoxicated violations over an month period. What preparation, documents, statistics, and analysis would you want to gather and review in your audit report? With the data that you gathered, support your audit findings and recommendations to see if the grant stipulations were fulfilled. (Answers may require research not found in your text.)
Assignments are formal, written assignments that are designed to help you expand on an important concept(s). Your answers to the assignment questions should be thoroughly explained in paragraph form. Your answers should cover the particulars of the question and include an example of your understanding of the question in general. Formal writing means using proper English, including grammatical, mechanics, and spelling rules. All references must be cited using in-text citations, and/or a bibliography resources list. All answers must be combined into one document (Microsoft Word preferred) that is a minimum of two pages.
The paper must be prepared in MS Word, double-spaced and be properly cited and referenced in APA format. The paper must include a title page, reference page, and a minimum of 2 full double-spaced pages of meaningful discussion (title page and reference page do not count as part of the 2 pages of meaningful discussion). You are expected to write professionally with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Your work should be double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins all around. When citing resources, you must adhere strictly to APA style.