The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office located in Florida, which established in 1847. During that time, it was the first legislature of Florida enacted a law that the Sheriff are to be elected every two years in counties throughout the state. In Hillsborough County, in particular, had selected John Parker as the first sheriff, he was a Seminole Indian war veteran. After that, that time the sheriff’s office had been functioning as a one-man operation (“HCSO 1845”). Subsequently, the tenure of Sheriff Parkers’ the county had expanded into a full-service law enforcement agency with more than 4,000 officers, correction deputies, and as well as civilians. Ove the years, the organizational structure and design base of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s …show more content…
221). As Tansik and Elliot pointed out the relationship and individual’s ‘in a higher level in which the organizational chart includes their job descriptions and title of commanding position. Additionally, the figure also suggests that the chain of command organizational highlights that the sheriff’s office is embodying the military style rank structures of hierarchy. Unlike the chief of police in Tampa, Florida, who has to report to the city manager or the Mayer, Sheriff Gee, however, is in charge of the entire County, and at the same time overseeing both the sheriff’s office operations and the detention department. As he is an elected official he is the “chief law enforcement officer of the agency” (P. 243). On the other hand, the appointed chief deputy/undersheriff is José M. Docobo, is the single commanding officer with the blessing of the Sheriff’s and overseeing the entire operations. (P. …show more content…
He also has the authority to allocate work and execute control in ensuring the work competency and readiness. The type of management style into the sheriff’s office “the top-down approach considers the overall police mission—to protect and to serve the public” (Swanson, Territo, & Taylor, 2012). It so because under Sheriff 's Gee leadership the agency adapted (ILP) tactic, which has been proven to be very effective in reducing crimes according to the Sheriff’s office. The transition makes sense as of why the sheriff shifted to (ILP), and one reason is that the “Compstat and intelligence-led policing is much more hierarchical and emphasizes the top-down approach” (Swanson, Territo, & Taylor, 2012.
The Processes: The sheriff's office falls under county government. The agency that handles most personnel/human resource management (P/HRM) issues is the County Personnel Office (CPO). The CPO plays a key role in collective bargaining for the county with the various guilds/unions, and they are also involved in grievance issues concerning EEO complaints (workplace harassment, discrimination, unfair labor practices, etc.) The CPO is also responsible for the hiring and promotion processes for all career Civil Service positions in county level employment.
The Wayne County Sheriff’s Department (WCSD) has a wide span of control. However in terms of the number of direct reporting employees, the sergeant in the jail division has the broadest span of control. Wide spans of control promote efficiency, productivity, and are cost effec...
Mr. Jose Alaniz, is a lieutenant with the Texas Department of Corrections, he states he is the youngest individual that has ever acquired the lieutenant title, even though he has only served the State of Texas for six years, but his outstanding leadership skills and abilities has allowed him to stand out from his coworkers and supervisors. Mr. Alaniz is currently in charge of over 2000 inmates, that he currently supervises, guides and also trains, in order for them to become better members of society, the moment they are released. Mr. Alaniz states that they have strict policies and procedures currently in place and is part of the safety committee that ensures all state employees are protected and safe during riots, disturbances and emergency
On 04/11/2016, Frank Perez, on behalf of his employer, Lennar Homes contacted the Pasco Sheriff`s Office by telephone to report a Petit Theft.
William Bratton, born and raised in Boston, was appointed as New York City’s new police commissioner by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on December 2, 1993. William Bratton was a leader who spent his whole life turning around low-performing, dysfun-ctional police departments. It was his specialty and it soon became his trademark. Bill Bratton hit the ground running as the commissioner of police by implementing several policies and visions that he had, that many believed would be unfathomable in policing. His goals were revolutionary and unprecedented and would not be possible to achieve if not for his incredible leadership ability. His ability as an effective leader allowed him to select intelligent, experienced, and quality individuals who shared identical beliefs and visions as he did. Any leader would agree that anything is possible through optimism, intelligent planning, and preparation, but nothing is possible if your chosen “executives” lack the leader’s confidence to operate freely and carry out the organization’s ultimate goals. Bratton was a believer in Theodore Roosevelt’s ideology that “the best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self- restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” Bratton was a master motivator. His optimism rubbed off on everyone around him and this reflected their performance. He had a belief that “leadership is the ability to enthuse and encourage the people in your organization so highly that, whatever idea is put into action, they embrace it so fully they forget the genesis and assume it was their own” (Bratton pg.155). This was Br...
Working with Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department has truly been a wonderful experience for me. The internship program for the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department has been recently modified to accommodate experience in multiple fields within the
Each chief had internal and external roles during their tenure as police chiefs of their police departments. Chief Davis was very talented, and he was apparently an excellent manager. Chief Davis began to set up a variety of positive internal functions in the department. He began strengthening the support of the community and open up the decision making so that the community could see what was going on. Chief Davis used the four internal functions; he built a system that could result in the agency that communicated well with the community by allowing them access to the organization. Chief Davis used strategic planning to fine away to help the community to understand and set goals. He organized the community support coalition so that they could
The organization structure in the Criminal Justice Field consists of six basic elements as in any career field. Moreover, the six essential elements consist according to Giblin “goals and objectives, division of labor, hierarchy of authority, command and control, accountability, and communication” (Giblin, 2014, pp.148). Furthermore, the first element is goal and objectives. This first element purpose is to function as a guide to create plans, tactics, assignments, policies, instructions, and regulations (Giblin, 2014, pp.148). Therefore, the goals and objective must be clear and consistent in order to be accomplished (Giblin, 2014, pp.148). The goal must be concise in order to be complete understood. In addition, the goal purpose is to maintain experience, reduce quandary, and to alter the organizational change (Giblin, 2014, pp.149). On the other hand, the objective purpose is used to create authority, accountability, and to handle complicated tasks (Giblin, 2014, pp.149). Foremost, if the objective and goal are not clearly stated it could caused higher level of discretion and the failure of the goals and objective (Giblin, 2014, --.149). Moreover, the second element is division of labor. The division of labor is divided in to three main groups:
A typical day for a Correctional Officer would be the preparing of inmates for court appearances. They also receive new inmates to the facility brought in by the Sheriffs Department. Each new inmate must be photographed and fingerprinted upon immediate arrival to the Pre Trial Centre. They are then stripped and fully searched inside and out. With that ...
The intent of this project was to illustrate the importance of the Chief of Police’s use of discretion for operational and administrative duties. There were situations noted and how it affects the head of the department in different aspects of operational and administrative environments. The way the head of the department uses discretion to handle these issues affects the department greatly and even trickles down to the amount of discretion used for officers on administrative and operational duties. The way situations are handled and the amount of discretion used in the choices that are made are important to Department personnel.
2. A new mayor is elected and the current chief is replaced with one of the newly elected mayors own choosing. The new mayor may bring his or her own vision of how the agency should be organized and operated (Swanson, 2012, pg. 650). This can ultimately lead to the dismissal of the current police chief because the new chief is better fitted ti implement changes that are consistent with the new mayor’s political and philosophical vision of governance (Swanson, 2012, pg. 651).
A major reason and mostly a popular stereotype, is the belief the officers are out to get people, or better understood as picking on an individual. Also these individuals have emotions and thoughts too, unlike the robot some think that those individuals are. Sheriffs are a multi-purpose and multi-use law enforcement group that is provided by the county that one lives in. In addition to that, a sheriff has an entire county to patrol and protect. The response time to an insistent also plays a major role, since there are usually only sheriffs out in the country around cities. While including being a multi-purpose group, sheriff 's often work with other agencies depending on the call and the criteria of the case that is on hand. Examples of sheriffs working with neighboring agencies can be seen in the local Madera Sheriff 's S.W.A.T team. Where there is a full 20 member, but 10 members are Madera deputies, 8 are Madera police officers, and 2 are police officers from the neighboring city of Chowchilla. Including that they work with neighboring agencies, they provide mutual aid for Merced county, natural disasters and prison escapes. As well as providing assistance, the sheriffs also attend schools around the county for demonstrations and possible career information. Plus, the sheriff 's department is the only agency to have a Dive team, as well as a Search & Rescue team. Adding on
It is necessary for different ranking levels to resolve issues. For example, the “Chief” of an organization does not always have time to answer all of the little questions or deal with every issue. When there is a chain of command, the lower level employees can utilize the chain of command to help resolve issues in a timely manner. Without this structure, employees would “flood” the “chief” with all of the issues, and the supervisors will be kept out of the loop of what’s going on. Nevertheless, I believe the paramilitary structure will work in policing for the reasons, information flows up the chain of command from the street officer to the police administration and orders and commands flow down the chain to the street officer. The chain of command and the paramilitary structure have been retained, regardless to the complexity of the police bureaucracy. Therefore, no matter how defined the hierarchy is or how flat the structure is, the goal was to be more consistent with community-oriented policing (Travis,
It is important as a criminal justice manager, and agency as a whole, to have legitimate power. Power that is not coercive and works for the good of the organization is beneficial in gathering information, resources, and compliance. Legitimate, expert, and referent power can be effective in the attainment of goals (Stojkovic et al., 2008). Legitimate power operates on the assumption that those in traditional authority positions are the power holder and wield their authority over the power recipient because their internalized norms justify the amount of compliance needed (Stojkovic et al., 2008). Legitimate power is most useful within criminal justice agencies because it takes into account the culture, and social structure, and operates within a hierarchy to promote successful delegation of duties.
A common style of police leadership is a more bureaucratic style where the leader manages “by the book”, everything must be done in accordance with pre-written policies and procedures (Cordner & Scarborough, 2010). When a certain problem or concern isn’t covered by the book the leader refers to the next level for a decision. This style removes the ability of the leader to manage and forces a strict accordance to the “book”. This style can be very effective when dealing with dangerous situations which can be a common occurrence in police work.