business law

Learn by Doing 1. Your commander comes to you, having heard and director of research, planning, and analysis- personally observed a number of problems concern- to explain in a memorandum all that would be ing the manner in which communication is occurring involved in creating and maintaining a single from one duty shift to another; these problems pri- county-wide police agency, to include advantages marily involve inaccurate information being dissemi- and disadvantages of doing so. How do you nated as well as a grapevine that seems bent on respond? carrying incorrect, malicious information. You are 3. While you are working on the assignment in #2 (i.e., assigned to look at the problem as well as recommend means by which communications could be improved. preparing a report on creating and maintaining a consolidated police agency in your county), you are How would you proceed, and what kinds of ideas asked by a local civic organization to appear at one might you put forth? of its functions and describe and compare the roles 2. Your county sheriff has recently come out publicly and functions of police chiefs and sheriffs. You in favor of consolidating all police agencies in your decide to use the Mintzberg model for chief execu- county. Having caught your new police chief off- tive officers to meet this address. Prepare a presenta- guard, your police chief asks you-the agency's tion that does so