nd lieutenants are crucial to a department because they are the ones who listen to patrol officers’ complaints, and a commanders’ instructions. But before a community policing model can be presented, it must be understand that the department can and will change several times before the right choices are made. “It is apparent…that, in general, major structural, managerial, and personnel changes are required in police organizations before community policing can be implemented”(Riechers, 112). Departments have to be ready to make several changes, because it involves bringing in a program that is complex and very time consuming. Departments, especially authoritative figures, must realize that much of their powers get taken away from them. “Problem oriented policing and community policing seek to broaden the police role to one of a municipal agency responsible for many public services. This is expected to help decentralize police bureaucracies, making them more accountable to the public, often through community and police power sharing”(Greene, 169). As a philosophy, community policing has two major components, increased community involvement and organizational change in the structure of policing. The author makes a good point in saying that “while all the police leaders in this study stressed increased community involvement, none mentioned changing the structure of their organizations”(Seagrave, 15). It is good to see that the leaders are very optimistic in creating and gaining active community members, but it also shows that they are overlooking organizational change. By overlooking this, it can create chaos throughout the department, and put a halt to community policing until the departments own structure can be figured out.Police departments must remember not to keep all their attention towards the problem solving methods because something may have been forgotten in the proc...
