Police Bureaucracy

Some of the most notable comparisons that the police has with the military are the rank structure, the chain of command, and that they can both used weapons and force (Peak, 2014, p. 63). Other less notable comparisons is that they are both a bureaucracy meaning that the majority of the tasks, duties, regulations, and rules are made by a high rank official usually the police chief in local agencies and in state and federal agencies they are usually made by the state governor with the police chief or in federal agencies by congress and then all the rules and regulations must be follow by all police officers from the highest rank to the lowest rank similar to the way that the military works (Police Organization). A bureaucracy can be effective

To help the police chief accomplish his or her mission the police chiefs will rely on others such as the assistant chief, deputy chief, colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, detective, and officers, each of them have a certain role and a limit to their power of authority just like in the military (Hierarchy Structure). Similar to the military, police agencies are usually organized into different units or sections that perform different tasks, for example the police department of the city of Portsmouth has a captain administrator and a deputy chief that reports to the chief of police, the captain administrator is in in charge of overseeing all the administrative units within the department such as the dispatchers unit, accounting clerks, communications, budget coordinators, and IT while the deputy chief is in charge of overseeing all the units that are out in the field or engaging in policing tasks such as patrol officers, street sergeants patrol, animal control officers, detectives, shift lieutenants, and other specialized units such as SWAT (City of