Leadership of Police Supervisor - Assignment Example

Misc Qld Law Your name:   Course name:         Professors’ name: Date: Phase 1 Insert 1: 250 words The three types of skills that will help a person to develop effective supervision include: interpersonal, conceptual skills and intrapersonal skills. Interpersonal skills include how a person communicates with people around him/her, but also involve the confidence and a person ability to listen and understand. Decision making, problem solving and personal stress management are also categorized as interpersonal skills. Intrapersonal skills involve emotional intelligence. This is the ability to understand and manage your emotional life, which in turn will affect the life of others around you. And Conceptual skills, it is important for a supervisor to see a ‘big picture’ because in a working environment many factors can change quickly. A police officer who possesses conceptual skills will help hi/her to see the consequences of a plan or idea. According to Cole (2001), conceptual skills is important for a supervisor to possess or nature, because a person is able to see how all parts of an organization contribute to its overall failure or success. They will also give a person opportunity to change that section of an organization which may affect the remaining sections. The core interpersonal skills according Karpin Report (1995) are team building, motivation and communication skills. Therefore a police supervisors with no such skills will find it difficult with his/her junior police and attain the required results in the police station. Insert 2: 150 words Be fair and consistent; maintain lines of communication; and encouraging trust are among the 13 strategies that can help in developing an effective team. In being fair and consistent; a supervisor should ensure his/her junior are able to freely participate in discussion and activities in a team. In encouraging trust; as a police supervisor I will create a platform that will help junior officers be able to express themselves without fear of retribution. And lastly, in maintaining lines of communications; I will encourage sharing of information that will help promote trust and upward communication. For example, in the team I will encourage my team member to fully user their strengths while compensating form their weaknesses. Insert 3: 200 words The QPSPPA process is where employee or staff in an organization participate with management in an organization in setting the objectives and goals of organizations. In the police settings, these goals and objectives will allow police officers to work towards the achievement of organizational objectives and goals. With a right attitude, a supervisor will be able to overcome any difficulties in order to succeed in its goals and objectives. Even if a team in an organization does not have any pressure, team’s enthusiasm and spirit will be reflected in the quality of goals being achieved. Therefore, to achieve these collaborative goals in an organization, a supervisor should behave as one of the team- supportive, collaborative, and friendly, etc. The police supervisor must be best friends with each member of the team to the extent that each member would go to great lengths to help the police department to achieve its goals. In a collaborative team the junior police officers will feel that the team’s success is their own personal mission, therefore they will be able to respond even if the pressure in the team rises determinedly. Insert 4 (i): 50 words The first step as a police supervisor I will discuss the problem with the constable who always comes late to work and try to find out what is the problem or reasons why he/she is coming to work late because in most situations open communication will help a team member to reach its goals. Insert 4 (ii): 150 words The MDWP is a process that will help an organization to clarify poor performance issues in an individual and at same time ensure there is objectivity and balance in developing a solution to a problem. The objective of MDWP is to maintain a developmental and supportive approach while trying to correct a poor performance and is made in relationship to the needs of an organization and a person who is concerned. In the case study, the police officer who always comes late and by using this process, MDWP process has a mechanism that will give the concerned police officer with every opportunity that will help him/her to improve his/her performance to the allowed standards. This will include providing the concerned police officer with appropriate support such as training, counseling services and supervision. Insert 5: 200 words Under Section 19 of anti-Discrimination Act 1991, the incident constitutes sexual harassment. On the other hand, sexual harassment it is any form of unwelcome sexual attention, or involves offence or humiliation to the concerned person. Such humiliation may include jokes or taunts, sexual or suggestive comments, Under Queensland laws, sexual harassment it is an offence. The option which is available to the police constable is bring forward a formal complaint so that the matter of sexual harassment can be formally investigated. In this situation, the police constable should report the matter to the ESC via the QPS complaint management process. In addition, the police constable can lodge a complaint with the Anti-Discrimination Commission Qld. As a police supervisor, you need to be in a position of indentifying any act of sexual harassment, provide support to the concern person, and put in place preventive mechanisms or approaches that will help minimize further incidents of sexual harassment from occurring in the workplace. The above measures can be achieved if other members in the police force have been educated and reminded that sexual harassment incidences cannot be tolerated. Insert 6(i): 100 words In this situation I will categories the complaint as a ‘client service complaint’. This is because a member of the public got upset because there was a break up in his residence but there was no police officer who turn up to his residence to investigate the claim according to the code 3 break and enter offence. In the case study, the action which I will take as a police officer on duty I ask the concern person to complete a Client Service Record Form and this is with regard with section 18.1.3.2.1 of the HRMM. Insert 6(ii): 100 words I will categories the incident as a ‘discipline complaints’ because the incident was a minor one and cannot be repeated by the officer John Worth who was responding to a Code 2 job. Furthermore, according to the police officer it was not intention when he forgot to activate the vehicles’ light and siren. As a police officer I will take the following action: note the full details of the allegation; then notify the commissioner officer; and then determined if there is any preliminary inquiry that is needed for the incident; and lastly I will complete a complete a QP466—‘Complaint Against Member of Police Service’. Phase 2 Read More