Police Leaders as Thinkers

This book identifies police leaders who have stood out and chalked a path that has transformed their organizations. It describes these thinkers, who look deep into the challenges of policing and comment critically upon various responses and actions.
Featuring profiles of police leaders from various countries, this book features officers with an aptitude for learning, presenting the situations they have confronted and the methods they have adopted to change systems and usher reforms. It identifies the characteristics of thinking police officers, and suggests the ways in which the serious policing challenges of modern times can be addressed by creative and outside the box thinking by leadership.
Appropriate for students of criminal justice and policing, for researchers studying law enforcement and for practitioners discussing policing reform, this book will initiate a new debate about the nature and possibilities of building new police for the 21st century.

Conceptualizes police leaders as thinkers through examples Features an international cohort of profiles contributed by diverse researchers and police leaders Suggests creative and out of the box thinking to support police reform

Autorentext

Dilip K. Das, Ph.D. is the Founding President of the International Police Executive Symposium. He is a human rights consultant to the United Nations, and a Professor for Criminal Justice at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Arvind Verma, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University Bloomington. He is formerly of the Indian Police Service.

Inhalt

How do we recognize police leader-thinkers?.- Police Leaders as Thinkers: Interview with Chief Theresa Tobin.- Police Leaders as Thinkers: Interview with Chief Theresa Tobin.- The Thought Police: The need for police leaders as thinkers.- Relational Policing at an Inflection Point: A Need for Police Leaders as Thinkers.- The Evidence Super Cop: Police Leadership in Advancing Evidence based Policing.- General Commissioner of the Israel Police- Roni Alsheich.- Darrel Stephens: An American Police Leader with Vision.- Thinking Police Leader in India: Case Study of Dr. Pradnya Saravade, IPS.- Hirofumi: A Japanese Thinking Police Leader.- Police, Race, Crime, and Leadership: Interview with William J Bratton.