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Colin Menzies Assistant Chief Constable Grampian Police. Key Themes. Do we want Police Entrepeneurs? What’s new in Policing? Risk Taking Valued competencies The National Intelligence Model. An Adaptive Leadership Continuum. Command & Control Action-Centred Leadership
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Key Themes • Do we want Police Entrepeneurs? • What’s new in Policing? • Risk Taking • Valued competencies • The National Intelligence Model
An Adaptive Leadership Continuum • Command & Control • Action-Centred Leadership • Transformational leadership • Principle/Value Centred Leadership • Collaborative/Participative Leadership • Team Leadership • Servant Leadership • Strategic Management of Resources, Processes, Governance & Performance
An Adaptive Leadership Continuum • Command & Control • Action-Centred Leadership • Transformational leadership • Principle/Value Centred Leadership • Collaborative/Participative Leadership • Team Leadership • Servant Leadership • Strategic Management of Resources, Processes, Governance & Performance • Entrepreneurial Leadership?
The Context of Policing in Scotland • National Intelligence Model & PSP • Crime falling, detections rising, perceptions static? • More Officers than ever but CSR tightening • Increasing Public Expectation • Single Outcome Agreements, Community Planning & the Democratic Deficit ? • Desire for a ‘Sense of Place’ • Need to Deliver Public Value, Moore et al • Role - Patrol, Pursue, Prevent……..& PROTECT
‘Leadership is a choice, not a position’ Dr Stephen Covey (2004)
1. Are Police Entrepeneurs wanted – or needed? • Do we recruit entrepreneurial individuals or those who want to serve the community – are they the same? • Do the public expect safety, consistency or risk taking and uncertainty • Performance is improving • Efficiencies can also be squeezed so far • Budgets always come in on schedule? • Staff morale is high • PLODDLEDYGOOK!
2. What’s new in Policing – seriously! “Foot patrol in ****town, observed and arrested male (named) for being drunk and incapable. Taken to station and charged. While writing report, summoned to disturbance in Church Street. On arriving, found four youths who quietened on my arrival. All spoken to , details noted and warned. Will follow up with later visits. Return to station to complete report from earlier.”
3. Risk Taking Responsible Agencies -v- Irresponsible Individuals
‘A real entrepeneur is someone who has no safety net underneath them’ Henry Kravis
Risk Taking • Responsible Agency –v- Irresponsible Individual • Understood by Police? • Ability to Defend decisions • Transparency of Society • Threat of Litigation • Risk Averseness • Valued by those we serve? • Valued by the organisation?
4. Valued Competencies • Respect for Diversity • Effective Communication • Job Knowledge • Leadership • Problem Solving • Management Ability • Partnership Working • Service Delivery • Personal Awareness • Personal Effectiveness • Team Working
Valued Competencies • Respect for Diversity • Effective Communication • Job Knowledge • Leadership • Problem Solving • Management Ability • Partnership Working • Service Delivery • Personal Awareness • Personal Effectiveness • Team Working
Problem Solving ‘ Promotes an organisational culture that recognises and values new ideas. Promotes successful initiatives that may depart from conventional thinking’.
Perceived Success Factors of Effective Police Leaders • Vision • Two-Way Communication • Visibility & Accessibility • Transparency of Decision Making • Delivery & Performance Management • Empathy Home Office (2001)
The ‘Big Four’ • Honest • Forward Looking • Inspiring • Competent Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2002)
5. The National Intelligence Model • Minimum Standards • Efficient Tasking • Joint Tasking • Reliance on Information • Importance of Analysis • Levels 1, 2 & 3 • Business Process - Assets, sources, intelligence recording, research and analysis, products, strategic tasking and co-ordinating, tactical resolution, operational review – feeds back into assets and sources
Who Should Lead Us? The wisest among us, the individual with the greatest knowledge, skill, power and resources of all kinds[Plato]
GRAMPIAN POLICE VALUES • INTEGRITY • TRANSPARENCY • ACCOUNTABILITY • RESPONSIBILITY • IMPARTIALITY
GRAMPIAN POLICE GUIDING PRINCIPLES • CUSTOMER FOCUS • PEOPLE • EXCELLENCE • EMPOWERMENT • PROBLEM SOLVING • PARTNERSHIPS • LEARNING
‘Even if you are on the right track, you will still get run over if you just sit there’ Will Rogers