15 October 2012

The Advantages Of Police Consulting

By Lance Buschman


Police consulting is the practice of helping law enforcement bodies to improve their performance through analysis of their structure to identify problems, then drawing up and executing plans to solve them. These organizations draw on the wisdom and experience of performance coaches to accomplish these goals. The professionals are a perfect choice for this job, having been helping private corporations attain the same goals for years.

These seem to have increased exponentially in recent years. Many governments are facing increasing fiscal pressure, and have turned to budget cuts in order to balance their books. Law enforcement organizations have not been spared these reductions in spite of the extra burdens placed on them. Like Israelites in Biblical Egypt, they are expected to deliver on their mandate even on a shrunken down budget.

Also, criminals are getting more sophisticated, and criminal justice bodies have to find a way to keep up, if not stay ahead of them. One goal of these professional corporate coaches is to help law enforcers manage their finances better. Together, they explore areas where excess fat can be cut.

Procurement systems are placed under a microscope, the goal being to find ways of getting supplies at a cheaper price wherever possible. Personnel are encouraged to find more efficient ways of doing their job, such as working from home. This saves many man hours that would have been lost in traffic and so on. Information technology is critical; even more important, however, is what is done with the data.

One of the biggest problems many law enforcers have faced is critical knowledge not being available when it is most needed. Also, a culture of hoarding facts from other organizations has been prevalent. Threats like terrorism have shown the weaknesses of such an approach. These coaches help criminal justice bodies develop means of sharing needed information.

They also draw on their experience working for different organizations to help select what actually suits the agency, so that money is not used on capacity that will never be used. No organization is an island, and for enforcement agencies to fulfill their mandate, they need to foster relationships with other statutory bodies, and even private corporations. This ensures that they can gain access to valuable information and resources necessary to achieve their goals.

No organization, much less a criminal prevention one, can work alone. Linkages to other bodies and stakeholders are an essential part of successfully carrying out their mandate. Performance coaches draw on their long experience building relationships between different bodies to foster this between different government bodies. They also help develop cooperation agreements between statutory and private bodies. These are some of the benefits police consulting brings.




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