You have been asked to give a presenation to the local community leaders about your
police department. They are interested in how their taxes are being used, how the
officers are being used, how the protection will be for them and what will happen in case
there is an issue with an officer. You have 8-10 minutes to make this presentation to the
community leaders that is to include a slide presentation.
Instructions:
• Read the project scenario.
• Based on the project scenario and the information from the Research Project
assignment in Unit 7, submit a PowerPoint presentation including:
o Organization of a Law Enforcement Agency
▪ Explain how a law enforcement agency is organized.
• Why is a law enforcement agency organized like it is? What
factors influence the organization of the law enforcement
agency?
• What is the typical division of labor existing in law
enforcement organizations?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of
specialization? Is there a better way to structure modern
police agencies?
▪ Include the organizational chart of the police agency including
clerical positions and specialized units.
• Describe and explain the organizational hierarchy.
• Explain and justify the specialization units of your
department and the number of officers you have assigned to
them.
o Work Schedule
▪ Include the work schedule (a work schedule over a 24/7-week
period using a combination of 4 & 2 schedule and Monday through
Friday).
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▪ Explain why you deployed your resources in the manner that you
did.
▪ Explain how you will fill positions that need to be filled due to
sickness, vacation, or work-related injuries without the use of any
overtime and not taking away from the coverage needed to protect
the general community.
o Discipline and Problem Behavior
▪ Explain how you would handle community complaints about
officers. This is to include discipline procedures that might be used.
▪ As a local police manager, what types of positive and negative
discipline would you use?
▪ What role should discretion play in the application of punishment?
Who has the authority to exercise such discretion at your local
police department?
• The presentation should have a voice-over for each slide.
o The presentation should last 8-10 minutes.
o Information on the slides should be kept to short bullet points and
explained further in the audio.
o Consider the use of the notes section in PowerPoint to write a narrative for
the voice-over.
o Include a title and reference slide in the presentation.
o Presentation should be professional.
