Police Leader Analysis

The first thing that a police manager needs be is a leader not a manager. The police culture is based on the military system. Police work is dangerous and to follow someone or do those jobs that most would be scared to do you have to believe in the mission that is trying to be accomplished and the leadership leading them. Officers won’t follow a manager to hell in back, but they will move mountains on their backs if they believe in their leadership.
In our secular society, we tend to think of a leader as a person who is well-connected, who is powerful or charismatic or wealthy. We judge our leaders by what they have. But a true leader should be judged by what he has not -- ego, arrogance, and self-interest. A true leader sees his work as