You are a police officer in a department with 50 sworn police officers and 10 civilian personnel. As one of the few college graduates with a criminal justice degree in the department, the Chief has asked you to help him to address certain problems and assist in the reorganization of the department. The Chief wishes to move from a hierarchical, formal, and mechanistic department to a more modern, open, and professional organization. Some of the problem areas that the Chief wants you to address are:the formal and informal structural problems that exist between management and non-management officers in executing formal department policies and regulations; whether the department should maintain a centralized and decentralized systems; environmental influences and pressures; how to develop more favorable relations with its environmental constituents so that the department can be perceived to be more responsive, productive, and contributing organization in the community.

Address using:

• the formal and informal structural problems that exist between management and non-management officers in executing formal department policies and regulations;
• whether the department should maintain a centralized and decentralized systems;
• environmental influences and pressures;
• how to develop more favorable relations with its environmental constituents so that the department can be perceived to be more responsive, productive, and contributing organization in the community.