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Community Policing


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             The Concept of Early Warning (EW) Systems.
             Historically, police officers recognized that certain colleagues had serious performance problems. Yet, this informal knowledge was never utilized in an official way to help those officers or incorporated into departmental personnel management systems. Herman Goldstein observed in 1977 that problem officers "are well known to their supervisors, the top administrators, to their peers, and to the residents of the areas in which they work," but that " little is done to alter their conduct." The U.S. Civil Rights Commission was the first official body to recommend EW systems as a response to the phenomenon of the problem officer (National Criminal Justice Reference Service).
             The identification of police officers who have potential problems has emerged as a popular approach for curbing police misconduct and achieving accountability. EW systems are data-driven programs whose purpose is to identify police officers whose behavior is problematic (indicated by high rates of citizen complaints, use of force incidents and by other evidence), to subject those officers to some kind of intervention, often in the form of counseling or training. EW systems are consistent with the new demands for performance evaluation raised by community policing and the effective strategic management of police agencies due to their potential for providing timely data on officer performance and giving police managers a framework for correcting unacceptable performance. The model elements of an effective and efficient system requires that the criteria for selecting officers to the EW system are linked to the agency's needs, the intervention is linked to the officer's needs, and the follow-up procedure links the officer's problem behavior to the supervisor's style and ability. Implementing EW systems requires considerable administrative attention. An EW system is "early" in the sense that a department acts on the basis of performance indicatory that suggest that an officer may be having problems on the job but do not necessarily warrant formal disciplinary action.


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