Police

Organization of the Police Department |

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Sheena |

4/10/2011 |

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Organization means effectiveness of arrangement: the effectiveness of the arrangement of separate components in a coherent whole. All matters in life have some form of organization in them. Weather its work, home, school or playtime. A police department should have great organization. I will describe 3 areas in which their organizational skills should be at their highest; Area (beats), Time (scheduling), Purpose.

Area, beat, post, sectors, zone and precincts no matter what you name them they all have to be organized. Let’s start with beat. A beat by definition is: In police terminology, a beat is the territory and time that a police officer patrols. Beat policing is based on traditional policing (late 19th century) and utilizes the close relationship with the community members within the assigned Beat to strengthen Police effectiveness and encourage cooperative efforts to make a safer community. Beat police typically patrol on foot or bicycle which provides more interaction between police and community members (good and bad). When officer’s area assigned to a beat they might patrol that beat their entire career at the precinct. Sectors or zones are a combination of numbers of individual beats grouped together. For example; a patrol car sector may patrol several foot beats while those foot beats cover some of a supervisor’s zone. A precinct is the entire collection of beats and sectors in a given geographic area. The numbers of precincts depends on the population of the city. For example New York City services over 8 million people with almost 40,000 officers and 76 police precinct. Where I live in Cordele, Georgia we have a population of almost 12,000 and have a police department and a sheriff’s office. With the combined total of sheriff department and police department we have 100 officers protecting and serving almost 12,000 people.

Time is a very valuable thing and should not...