Unit 2
How Policing Has Responded: TQM, NPM, Crime Management and Decentralization

Overview

Unit 2 explores the application of particular management trends and how they affect police organizations. It examines management in terms of process, application, and theoretical foundations. It assesses the theoretical components of modern management practices, and discusses how these theories have been used to address the current organizational needs of policing. Unit 2 addresses the function of police supervisors and the challenges they face in implementing managerial reform.

Learning Objectives

When you have completed Unit 2, you should be able to achieve the following learning objectives.

1. Assess specific managerial trends and apply them to various police organizations.
2. Analyse different managerial outcomes as they correspond to specific theories of management.
3. Examine the role of police supervisors in the context of differing managerial models and their implementation.