Police Leadership

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Term Paper
Prepare a twelve page paper on the topic of Police Leadership using at least three different sources. The paper must be submitted as a WORD document using  APA format, no other type of document or format will be accepted. Your paper must include the following:

Title Page: Your title page should contain a running head, the title of the paper, your name and your school affiliation. This page provides important details for your readers, so it is important to learn how to write a title that accurately yet briefly relates what your paper is about.

Abstract: The abstract is a very short summary of your paper. This section is placed immediately after the title page. According to the rules of APA format, your abstract should be no more than 150 to 250 words.

Body: Use a 1-inch margin on all sides. Your paper should be typed, double-spaced and in a 12-point  Times New Roman font. Every page of your paper should also include a page header on the top left of the page as well as a page number on the top right of the page.

Reference Section: The reference section is where you include any and all references that were used to write your APA paper. Remember, if you cited something in the main body of your paper, it must be included in the reference section. This section should begin on a new page, with the word References centered at the very top of the page.

Your research should include:

types of leadership ( democratic, laisse faire, authoritarian)

styles of leadership (climbers, zealots, advocates, conservers)

leadership skills ( technical , human relations, conceptual)

principal characteristics of good leaders, objectives of good human relations, proper use of discipline, prevalent reasons for failures, use of positive motivators, effective use of personnel, training education and development.

Topics to be included in a police management term paper

Defined and effective chain of command
Effective use of personnel
Effective use of support personnel
Effective supervision
Build an effective training program
Defined and effective disciplinary procedure
Defined and effective use of resources
Effective program development
Utilization of outside resources
Most importantly, take care of your employees
Quality of police services
Confront performance shortcomings
Training, education and development
Professionalism, performance and accountability
Define problems, establish objectives, and assist line police officers in the accomplishment of the police mission.”
COMPSTAT
Types of leadership
Characteristics of a good leader
Reasons for failure[N1]

Dictionaries

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You should create a program that manages a tab-separated text file containing employees travel expenses. There are 4 and only 4 employees who travel for the company: alice, bob, carl, and diane. Each record in the data file will contain an employee name, a destination city, miles traveled, and gallons used.

In the data file itself, each field in a record is separated by a tab character (“t”). Here are the records to be used in the file; it may not look like it, but each field is tab-separated. If you copy and paste this data into your data file, you may or may not need to edit it a bit in Notepad (or similar) to make sure there is only 1 tab between each of the 4 fields. There is no tab between st. and louis, only a space. When this data is read into your program it will be converted into a list of dictionaries, where each row in the data is a dictionary with 4 keys: name, city, miles, and gallons.

alice    chicago    663    20.7
bob    indianapolis    226    8.7
alice    nashville    409    16.4
carl    indianapolis    243    8.4
diane    st. louis    581    16.4
bob    st. louis    560    18.1
bob    cincinnati    237    6.6
alice    chicago    681    17.9
alice    nashville    422    14.6
diane    chicago    676    22.5
carl    indianapolis    243    6.4
diane    indianapolis    276    7.7
diane    indianapolis    241    9.4
You will likely find it easier to use the data file as given in this link: travels.txt

You will find the base code for this program given near the bottom of the page in the lecture notes that discuss dictionaries, along with a video explaining how it works. That code will already contain functions for creating a menu, reading the data from a file, adding a record, and a function to store the data back to the text tile–all using the data given above! That discussion will certainly help you get a good start on this assignment. A picture of the menu you need to use is given below. Note option 2, which is new.

menu

Here’s what it might look like if you select option 1 to display all the data, with the data formatted to line up in neat columns. As mentioned above, code for this much of the program (with the exception of option 2) can be copied from the lecture notes.

everyone’s data

So, what is it that you need to do? You need to add the functionality so that clicking option 2 will display the total miles and gallons used by one of the employees. When option 2 is exercised you should enter one of the 4 employee’s first names, then the following should be displayed: that person’s name and total miles traveled, for all cities, total gallons used, average miles per gallon overall, and the expense value for the total miles at 75 cents per mile. Like this, for alice.

We exercise option 2, then enter alice’s name, then we see that alice has racked up a total of 2175 miles, used a total of 69.6 gallons for an average miles-per-gallon value of 31.3 mpg. And, alice should get an expense check for 2175 * .75 = $ 1631.25. If using option 2 you entered the name bob, you’d see bob’s calculated data (1023 total mile with the given data, etc.).

alice’s data

So, basically, you need to add 1 function to the base code given in the notes. For option 2, you will essentially need to read each record with a loop and accumulate totals for miles and gallons, but only if the entered user name matches a name in a record (think if-statement). If you’ve forgotten what an accumulator is, go back to the material where the for-loop was introduce.

So, enter a name, set up a for-loop that loops thru the data, if the entered name matched the name in the record, add the miles to a variable, the gallons to a variable, with the loop keeping a running total.

After the loop runs, mpg is total miles divided by total gallons, and the expense check is just total miles times .75.

For full credit:

Your program should properly read and store the given data to and from the tab-separated data file. That is, I should be able to use your program with my data file without error.
When the data is read into your program it should be organized as a list of dictionaries, where each dictionary is a row in the file, using these dictionary keys: name, city, miles, gallons.
You need to add functionality to display the user’s name, total miles traveled, total gallons used, average mpg, and the expense of the total miles at 75 cents per mile. This should work for any of the 4 proper user names you enter.

Identify Strategic Issues

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According to NAACHOs MAPP User Handbook:

Completing the Phase Four answers the following questions:

What issues are critical to the success of the local public health system?
What fundamental policy choices or critical challenges must be addressed in order for the community to achieve its vision? (NACCHO, 2013)

If a community is needed to please be sure to utilize Nassau County, NY only

There are seven steps to completing Phase Four:

Step One: Determine the Need for Completing the Phase
Step Two: Present a Summary of All Four Assessments
Step Three: Brainstorm Potential Strategic Issues
Step Four: Synthesize and Prioritize Strategic Issues
Step Five: Disseminate Results
Step Six: Conduct Process Evaluation for Phase Four
Step Seven: Celebrate (NACCHO, 2013)

Students will complete the following steps of Phase Four, Identify Strategic Issues:

Step Two: Present a Summary of All Four Assessments
Summarize the results of each of the four assessments.  Refer to page 87 of the MAPP User Handbook for the recommended information to include in your summary.

Step Three: Brainstorm Potential Strategic Issues
First complete the Brainstorming Worksheet (available as a separate document under Week 5 Course Materials) in order to help you identify themes. Identify three themes/issues seen in the assessment results.  Include the Brainstorming Worksheet as an appendix to this paper.

Step Four: Synthesize and Prioritize Strategic Issues
Read the NACCHO Prioritization Tip Sheet to learn the different prioritization processes available.

Select one prioritization process and explain why it was selected.  Then, prioritize the three themes/issues identified in the previous step using the selected prioritization process.  Provide a narrative description of the process and include any tables/graphs in an appendix.

For the top prioritized issue, the root causes of why it is a health issue need to be determined.  Using the Health Problem Analysis Worksheet (available as a separate document under Week 5 Course Materials), complete the health analysis for the number one health issue for your community.  Include the Health Problem Analysis Worksheet in an appendix and provide a narrative description of the Health Problem Analysis in your paper.

Aspects of NIMS training

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Students will write a research paper based on one of the topics below. The paper should include an
overview of the subject and major relevant points relative to economic, social and/or legal implications or
impacts. Moreover, the paper should incorporate the role of the Saint Leo University core value of
Community as it relates to local response to terrorism (e.g., mutual aid agreements, regionalization
approaches, multi-jurisdictional training or exercises, cross-discipline training or exercises, interoperable
The paper has a required minimum length of 2500 words and must conform to APA style and formatting.
This includes a running head, page numbers, cover page, abstract, introduction, body, summary of
findings, conclusion, in-text citations, and reference page. Non-APA formatted papers will receive an
automatic 25 point reduction.
A minimum of five references are required, with no more than two from Internet sources. Additional
grading criteria will include clarity of presentation, quality of content, mastery of content, care and
attention to detail, organization, originality of presentation, and the value and interest of the presentation,
as well as proper grammar and punctuation. A grading rubric is available in the course Doc Sharing
section.
The assignment must be your original work. You are required to use no more than 15% of others quoted
work when completing any assignments within this course of study. Your research paper must therefore
be 85% original.