Integrated Patrol Strategy

Integrated Patrol Strategy

How does this approach compare to the traditional model of law enforcement? The integrated patrol strategy brings a community-oriented concept of policing into play, which crime prevention and reduction efforts are applied on a broader scale, rather than focusing specifically on a group of people within a particular location. The integrated patrol strategy, also calls for more enhanced investigative procedures and information sharing for between agencies to aid in effective solutions to solving crimes and track trends and patterns, as well as, the potential to strengthen relationships between agencies at all levels. Compared to the traditional enforcement strategy which responded to crime after the fact, and only applying different focuses to certain situation, instead of incorporating all aspects of policing in a more organized and strategic plan that is encompassed into the overall police mission. You might look at integrated patrol as a 'one team, one fight' concept; whilst the traditional way of doing things, is every man for himself, point of view.

In any organization, changes will be resisted. Where is resistance most likely to occur and how will you overcome it? Resistance might occur between to two sections of the police department that require the most cooperation, which are the investigative and patrol sections. The point of view from the investigative division may be that they like the way things are, and they don't want integrate with others not form the investigative side. Whereas, resistance out of the patrol division would be that they already have enough responsibility as is, and now they are being asked to do more. From both perspective resistance would mainly stem from the mere fact that its causing more work for everyone across the board, instead of, separate divisions just 'passing the buck' from one to another.