NCJ Number
80541
Date Published
Unknown
Length
10 pages
Annotation
A provisional theoretical model for changing the organization of local police forces in the Netherlands is presented.
Abstract
This report is part of a larger project that is examining local police organization structures due to complaints from police that the workload is exceeding that which can be reasonably performed by the manpower resources fixed by the Minister for Home Affairs. The Project Group on Organization Structures, established by the Minister for Home Affairs, intends to examine current police organizational structures with a view toward developing a new structure that will enable police forces to be more effective and efficient under existing personnel resources. The basis of the proposed organization model is the establishment of neighborhood teams responsible for all police duties in a given territory. The teams would be so constituted that their members would conduct the full range of operations arising from policing requirements. Centralized activities would be developed on a limited scale, mainly to support the teams. Priority would be given to personnel participation in policymaking, resulting in a reduction in the number of existing levels of command. The organization model presented in this report gives only the contours of an organization structure whose implications for specific practical situations will be determined in the next research stage. Graphic illustrations are used to describe the organizational model.