{"id":69761,"date":"2022-09-01T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/?p=69761"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:27:32","slug":"a-path-toward-positive-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/a-path-toward-positive-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Path Toward Positive Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_idContainer571\" class=\"Basic-Text-Frame\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69962\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minard-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minard-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minard-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minard.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven W. Minard, PhD, Captain, City of Poughkeepsie Police Department, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Intro\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The emerging technology that will shift the policing landscape is and will continue to be body-worn cameras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\">This latest technology has allowed for more accountability, professionalism, community relations, training, and ethical policing. Body-worn cameras have allowed agencies to educate the public on the difficult job that their officers perform under challenging conditions, which can lead to increased transparency, appreciation, and trust. The public has made it clear that they prefer their police agencies to equip their personnel with this technology. These cameras also provide an opportunity for police leaders and their staff to assess areas in which officers are performing exceptionally, as well as areas in which improvements can be made through effective training. The effectiveness of officers, supervisors, and even field training officers can be evaluated from behind the desk\u2014although this should not be the only method for such evaluations. The culture of policing has been changed forever and will continue to change as more agencies adopt body-worn cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\">Unintended consequences include some officers being reluctant to engage in proactive policing due to fears of being scrutinized for improper actions, which can be subjective in nature. Leaders can overcome this by showing that they support their officers when they act ethically. This will not occur overnight and will take time to prove. The costs associated with records storage, retention, dissemination, and reviews by supervisors can be time consuming and costly and must be budgeted for, which some agencies are unable to do. Most officers, supervisors, and leaders are realizing the many benefits that outweigh and outnumber the few concerns. Additional benefits include less use-of-force incidents, less injuries to the police and public, and the ability to determine the facts of cases from a more independent viewpoint that protects the overwhelming majority of officers doing their job correctly, while also holding the few that engage in unethical conduct accountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\">The police leaders of today need to prepare those who will succeed them, just as others have hopefully prepared these leaders to take over leadership roles in the organization from their predecessors. Leaders who truly have the foresight and desire for their organizations to successfully progress and grow professionally will task themselves with long-term planning to achieve it. Leaders need to encourage and facilitate their intended successors to complete quality leadership training such as the FBI National Academy. There is a distinct reason why many cities and towns across the United States prefer graduates of this quality of training, which is considered by many to be the best in the world. The amount of current and former leaders who attended this training have demonstrated its value through their proven records of success.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\"><span class=\"CharOverride-91\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"CharOverride-91\">The police leaders of today need to prepare those who will succeed them, just as others have hopefully prepared these leaders to take over leadership roles in the organization from their predecessors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\">Training all members in a quality ethics and professionalism program, beginning with police recruits at the police academy, is also essential for continued organizational professionalism and leadership succession. Leaders must also practice ethical leadership to set examples demonstrating that their organization takes ethical policing seriously. This should be a continuous process, and one that outgoing leaders assist their successors with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\">The agency\u2019s culture will not be changed overnight, and to make effective positive change, long-term succession planning is key. Strong policies that guide professional conduct while still allowing officer discretion is important. Such policies will be a factor in professionalism, employee morale, community trust, and internal as well as external respect from and toward the public. These are just some of the areas affected by leadership decisions. Future police leaders can learn a great deal from past leaders who have the wisdom, experience, and knowledge from real-life experiences in these topics and other management challenges. The succession planning should include current and former senior management staff. The collective knowledge and suggestions that can be gained from this process can be invaluable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\">Part of the succession planning should involve considering the various duties and responsibilities within the organization and who will be most capable of performing these duties in the most efficient and effective manner. This is more difficult than many new leaders may sometimes envision. Considerations should include the loyalty of the employees to the leader and the organization, work ethic, and past proven work performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\">Leaders who understand and practice participative management in which other supervisors are respected, encouraged, and permitted to provide input into progressive and positive changes will move their organizations into the future on a successful path toward positive growth. This, coupled with practicing transformational leadership, in which followers are inspired by the current leader to improve the organization while improving themselves, will provide the foundation and building blocks for organizations to not only be successful but become greater than they were.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Webdings;\">d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Perspectives-Sept-2022_Perspect-Body\"><span class=\"CharOverride-6\"><aside class=\"pullout pullout--wide alignleft\">In 1984, Dr. Steven Minard<\/span><span class=\"CharOverride-84\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"CharOverride-6\">began his full-time career as a police officer with the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department; he currently serves as the administrative captain. Dr. Minard has instructed Ethical Awareness Training at several police academies and teaches several criminal justice courses at the graduate and undergraduate\u00a0<\/span>levels.<\/aside><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"_idContainer572\" class=\"Basic-Text-Frame\">\n<p class=\"Departments_Department-Paragraph ParaOverride-1\">Please cite as<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Steven W. Minard, \u201cA Path Toward Positive Growth,\u201d Perspectives on the Future of Policing, <em>Police Chief<\/em> 89, no. 9 (September 2022): 64\u201365.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emerging technology that will shift the policing landscape is and will continue to be body-worn cameras.<\/p>\n<p>This latest technology has allowed for more accountability, professionalism, community relations, training, and ethical policing. Body-worn cameras have allowed agencies to educate the public on the difficult job that their officers perform under challenging conditions, which can lead to increased transparency, appreciation, and trust. The public has made it clear that they prefer their police agencies to equip their personnel with this technology. These cameras also provide an opportunity for police leaders and their staff to assess areas in which officers are performing exceptionally, as well as areas in which improvements can be made through effective training. The effectiveness of officers, supervisors, and even field training officers can be evaluated from behind the desk\u2014although this should not be the only method for such evaluations. The culture of policing has been changed forever and will continue to change as more agencies adopt body-worn cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,144],"tags":[2205,2216,2217],"class_list":["post-69761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-recruitment-personnel","tag-perspectives-on-the-future-of-policing","tag-succession-planning","tag-transformational-leadership"],"acf":{"subtitle":"","post_author":" Steven W. 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