EFFECTIVE POLICE SUPERVISION STUDY
GUIDE QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS!!
What is supervision?
In a law enforcement organization the first line supervisor is the crucial where policy is
transmitted into action.
The task of a supervisor is to assist employees to become productive members of the
organization.
Intelligence-led and predictive policing in their efforts to improve the quality of life in
communities and facilitate crime reduction, disruption, and prevention
A first line supervisor is a trainer a mentor, guide and the one in the best position to identify
individual weaknesses and needs.
The supervisor is at the organizational focal point between officers and other managerial levels
and supervisorial duties must be performed with absolute confidence and situational adaption
Interaction with employees is what most first line supervisors deal with in the work place
Supervision
What are the advantages to transforming to a first line supervisor?
Additional training
Broader perspective of the depts operations
Commitment to success
Develop rapport with peers managers/subordinate
Different assignments
Feeling accomplished
,Gained reputation
Increase in pay
Training/mentoring of personnel
Prestige of rank
What are the disadvantages of transforming to a first line supervisor?
Accountable for work
Acting like a boss rather than friend
At the bottom of the seniority level
No longer just one of the boys
One step removed from line operations
Positioned on the middle between line and top managment
Work in isolation part of the time
Risk take
Make decisions everyday
Less freedom of action
Must implement policy not personally supported
What makes Good supervisors?
Are the result of the serious application of ones knowledge about human behavior to the work
situation.
Develops the ability to obtain results thru others
Value people as organizational assets
What is out of sight, out of mind (operational attitude) from W. Artley
Accountability has seen little application and its obligatory aspects have been ignored and
permeated at every level of a department, to include first line supervisors
What are aspects of Accountability?
,The obligation a person group or organization assumes for the execution of authority and
fulfillment of responsibility
The obligation includes: answering- providing explanation or justification
Reporting on results of execution and fulfillment (is mandated and the mainstay of the process)
Assuming liability for those results
Accountability permeates an organization it can result in a written or unwritten contract
Founded on assigned authority that defines the relationship be an individual a team or elements
of an organization
The real goal of the accountability process is maximizing achievement through goal attainment
What are the 5 levels of accountability?
1. Personal
2. Individual (accountability that occurs within a working configuration-task force
3. Team
4. Organizational
5. Stakeholders
What are organizational accountability's?
1. Both an internal and external relationship
2. INTERNAL refers to the upward downward and lateral flow of info between management and
officers and teams, groups and task force.
3. EXTERNAL accountability answers to or reports to its stakeholders with regard to the
performance of the organizational as well as organizational conduct
, Trust is the bonding agent of the accountability process.
Accountability comes with liability that has consequences and these can be either sanctions
or rewards
What are the supervisory skills of Hu-tack and their meanings?
Hu-human skills
T- tactical
A- affective
C-conceptual
K- knowledge
Human--(coaching communicating counseling mentoring delegation interesting
Leading resolving conflict)
Tactical--(capabilities control expertise procedures task orientation techniques)
Affective--(attitudes empathy equality fairness integrity interrelations values loyalty
Conceptual-- (analysis assessment Decision making identification of objectives prioritizing
problems solving problems interpreting)
Knowledge--(critically review reports
Directing evaluating organizing work scheduling training policy implementation provides admin
credibility)
What are management expectations of a supervisor?
1.Positive attitude
2.Loyalty
3.Integrity
4.Performance
GUIDE QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS!!
What is supervision?
In a law enforcement organization the first line supervisor is the crucial where policy is
transmitted into action.
The task of a supervisor is to assist employees to become productive members of the
organization.
Intelligence-led and predictive policing in their efforts to improve the quality of life in
communities and facilitate crime reduction, disruption, and prevention
A first line supervisor is a trainer a mentor, guide and the one in the best position to identify
individual weaknesses and needs.
The supervisor is at the organizational focal point between officers and other managerial levels
and supervisorial duties must be performed with absolute confidence and situational adaption
Interaction with employees is what most first line supervisors deal with in the work place
Supervision
What are the advantages to transforming to a first line supervisor?
Additional training
Broader perspective of the depts operations
Commitment to success
Develop rapport with peers managers/subordinate
Different assignments
Feeling accomplished
,Gained reputation
Increase in pay
Training/mentoring of personnel
Prestige of rank
What are the disadvantages of transforming to a first line supervisor?
Accountable for work
Acting like a boss rather than friend
At the bottom of the seniority level
No longer just one of the boys
One step removed from line operations
Positioned on the middle between line and top managment
Work in isolation part of the time
Risk take
Make decisions everyday
Less freedom of action
Must implement policy not personally supported
What makes Good supervisors?
Are the result of the serious application of ones knowledge about human behavior to the work
situation.
Develops the ability to obtain results thru others
Value people as organizational assets
What is out of sight, out of mind (operational attitude) from W. Artley
Accountability has seen little application and its obligatory aspects have been ignored and
permeated at every level of a department, to include first line supervisors
What are aspects of Accountability?
,The obligation a person group or organization assumes for the execution of authority and
fulfillment of responsibility
The obligation includes: answering- providing explanation or justification
Reporting on results of execution and fulfillment (is mandated and the mainstay of the process)
Assuming liability for those results
Accountability permeates an organization it can result in a written or unwritten contract
Founded on assigned authority that defines the relationship be an individual a team or elements
of an organization
The real goal of the accountability process is maximizing achievement through goal attainment
What are the 5 levels of accountability?
1. Personal
2. Individual (accountability that occurs within a working configuration-task force
3. Team
4. Organizational
5. Stakeholders
What are organizational accountability's?
1. Both an internal and external relationship
2. INTERNAL refers to the upward downward and lateral flow of info between management and
officers and teams, groups and task force.
3. EXTERNAL accountability answers to or reports to its stakeholders with regard to the
performance of the organizational as well as organizational conduct
, Trust is the bonding agent of the accountability process.
Accountability comes with liability that has consequences and these can be either sanctions
or rewards
What are the supervisory skills of Hu-tack and their meanings?
Hu-human skills
T- tactical
A- affective
C-conceptual
K- knowledge
Human--(coaching communicating counseling mentoring delegation interesting
Leading resolving conflict)
Tactical--(capabilities control expertise procedures task orientation techniques)
Affective--(attitudes empathy equality fairness integrity interrelations values loyalty
Conceptual-- (analysis assessment Decision making identification of objectives prioritizing
problems solving problems interpreting)
Knowledge--(critically review reports
Directing evaluating organizing work scheduling training policy implementation provides admin
credibility)
What are management expectations of a supervisor?
1.Positive attitude
2.Loyalty
3.Integrity
4.Performance
