Police AdministrationMidTerm
Answer each question with 500 - 700 words, completely and fully for full credit. You are to provide at least 3 references other than your readings to support each response.
These references are to be in APA format. Corresponding citations should be included in your response to document/support the facts you provide.
Answers are to be based on the course textbook and outside academic sources (excluding other course textbooks, encyclopedias such as Encarte and Wikipedia, About and Ask type websites that synthesize source information for users, magazines, news websites, blogs, etc.).
Essay answers must be more than 3 or 4 brief sentences, but kept within the bounds of a short-answer essay exam (i.e., 2-3 paragraphs). All your writing must be in your own words. Paraphrase (restate what you read) rather than copying material from the course textbook or the Internet. No copying is permitted in this course and doing so will result in zero points on the exam.
Answers must be written in narrative, paragraph form. Lists and/or sentence fragments also will not receive points.
1. Explain the role of a fusion center in the day-to-day operations of a large metropolitan police agency. Do you think that fusion centers would be very helpful to smaller agencies as well? Why or why not?
2. As a police chief using Hertzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory, what types of motivators would you use to improve officers' productivity?
3. If you were a police administrator, what do you believe would be a reasonable span of management? In other words, how many subordinates do you believe you could effectively supervise and why?
4. You are the police department's captain in charge of recruiting new officers while you city is having difficult economic times. What actions would you take to ensure there is a diverse, well-qualified pool of applicants?