Test Bank for Police Administration,
11th Edition Cordner (All Chapters
included) Question and Answer | Grade
A+ | 2026/2027 Latest Study Guide
• Police administration is primarily concerned with -✓✓1. The performance of
management duties within police depts
2. The implementation of policies and programs related to crime, disorder, and public
safety.
• big concerns for police administrators -✓✓1. Serious, violent crime
2. Terrorism/homeland security
3. Rapid changes in modern technology
4. Difficult economic times
• 1829 -✓✓When was the origin of paid civilian policing as we know if?
• Metropolitan police act of 1829 -✓✓Authorized sir Robert peel to est a police force for
London with 1,000 men
• Principles of Peelian Reform -✓✓1. The police should be organized along military
lines.
2. Securing and training proper persons is essential.
3. Police should be hired on a probationary basis.
4. The police should be under governmental control.
5. Police strength should be deployed by time and area.
6. Police headquarters should be centrally located.
7. Police record keeping is essential.
• Peel's approach to police administration -✓✓1. Centralized organization with graded
authority
2. Selective and stringent personnel standards
• The reason for a decentralized approach? -✓✓To protect local political influence over
the police.
• Eras of policing -✓✓1. The political era
2. The professional era
3. The community era
• Political era -✓✓1. Initially local politics served as a vehicle for ethnic groups to help
each other and police jobs was included in that
2. Reason for decentralized approach was to protect local political influence over police
,• Professional era -✓✓1. August Volmer, Bruce Smith and O.W. Wilson were in favor of
higher standards
2. Important attributes- good judgement and even temperament
3. Emphasis on education, training, discipline and use of modern tech
• The community era -✓✓1. Advocates a more decentralized organizational structure
2. Stronger emphasis on prevention
3. A problem-solving approach to police work
• Contexts to consider in police administration -✓✓1. The social context of police
administration
2. The political context of police administration
3. The legal context of police administration
• Social context of police administration -✓✓1. Disagreement over the objectives/role of
police
2. Tensions within ethnic group/ culture groups
3. Depts trying to have a more representative workforce to community
• Political context of police administration -✓✓1. Police part of executive branch
2. Federalism dividing up power, police primarily local or regional
• Legal context of police administration -✓✓1. Police have to adjust to new legislation
2. Constitutional law is constantly in flux
3. Police often given new duties with laws
4. Police constrained and regulated by law
5. Recently police administrators concerned with civil liability
• Democratic society and the challenge of PAs -✓✓1. Democracy based on consensus
of society but police job starts when consensus breaks down
2. Democracy est govt to serve people but police make people do/don't let them do
what they want sometimes
3. Basic tenet is freedom but again, police can take away freedom
• major dimensions of community policing -✓✓1. The philosophical dimension
2. The strategic dimension
3. The tactical dimension
4. The organizational dimension
• Philosophical dimension -✓✓Includes the central ideas and belief underlying COP;
such as the necessity of citizen input, the broad nature of the police function and the
need for police to provide tailored and personal service to the public.
, • Strategic dimension -✓✓Provides the link between the broad ideas and beliefs that
underlie COP and the specific programs and practices by which it is implemented
• strategic elements of community policing -✓✓1. Alternative police operational
strategies
2. A sharper geographic focus
3. A stronger emphasis on prevention
• Tactical dimension -✓✓Of community policing ultimately translates ideas,
philosophies, and strategies into concrete programs, practices and behaviors.
• important tactical elements of COP -✓✓1. Positive interactions with the public
2. Partnerships
3. A problem-oriented approach to police work
• Organizational dimension -✓✓Directly addresses the changes in police organization,
administration, managements and supervision that might be required to support and
facilitate the implementation of COP.
• Structure -✓✓How authority, responsibility and tasks are arranged in the pd
• Management -✓✓The process of running the org and dealing with emps
• Information -✓✓Types of data and info that are needed and systems to provide info
• How homeland security made police role more broad -✓✓1. Allocate more resources
to critical infrastructure
2. Security for special events and dignitaries
3. Intelligence activities
4. Terrorism-related investigations
5. Port security
6. Airport security
• safety and security -✓✓The already broad role of police now includes responsibilities
more associated with ___.
• Guiding principle 1 -✓✓The police are a general-purpose government agency that
provides a wide variety of services to the community, including but not limited to law
enforcement and crime control.
• Guiding principle 2 -✓✓The police get their authority from the law, the community,
political superiors, and the police profession, and are ultimately responsible to each of
these sources of authority.
11th Edition Cordner (All Chapters
included) Question and Answer | Grade
A+ | 2026/2027 Latest Study Guide
• Police administration is primarily concerned with -✓✓1. The performance of
management duties within police depts
2. The implementation of policies and programs related to crime, disorder, and public
safety.
• big concerns for police administrators -✓✓1. Serious, violent crime
2. Terrorism/homeland security
3. Rapid changes in modern technology
4. Difficult economic times
• 1829 -✓✓When was the origin of paid civilian policing as we know if?
• Metropolitan police act of 1829 -✓✓Authorized sir Robert peel to est a police force for
London with 1,000 men
• Principles of Peelian Reform -✓✓1. The police should be organized along military
lines.
2. Securing and training proper persons is essential.
3. Police should be hired on a probationary basis.
4. The police should be under governmental control.
5. Police strength should be deployed by time and area.
6. Police headquarters should be centrally located.
7. Police record keeping is essential.
• Peel's approach to police administration -✓✓1. Centralized organization with graded
authority
2. Selective and stringent personnel standards
• The reason for a decentralized approach? -✓✓To protect local political influence over
the police.
• Eras of policing -✓✓1. The political era
2. The professional era
3. The community era
• Political era -✓✓1. Initially local politics served as a vehicle for ethnic groups to help
each other and police jobs was included in that
2. Reason for decentralized approach was to protect local political influence over police
,• Professional era -✓✓1. August Volmer, Bruce Smith and O.W. Wilson were in favor of
higher standards
2. Important attributes- good judgement and even temperament
3. Emphasis on education, training, discipline and use of modern tech
• The community era -✓✓1. Advocates a more decentralized organizational structure
2. Stronger emphasis on prevention
3. A problem-solving approach to police work
• Contexts to consider in police administration -✓✓1. The social context of police
administration
2. The political context of police administration
3. The legal context of police administration
• Social context of police administration -✓✓1. Disagreement over the objectives/role of
police
2. Tensions within ethnic group/ culture groups
3. Depts trying to have a more representative workforce to community
• Political context of police administration -✓✓1. Police part of executive branch
2. Federalism dividing up power, police primarily local or regional
• Legal context of police administration -✓✓1. Police have to adjust to new legislation
2. Constitutional law is constantly in flux
3. Police often given new duties with laws
4. Police constrained and regulated by law
5. Recently police administrators concerned with civil liability
• Democratic society and the challenge of PAs -✓✓1. Democracy based on consensus
of society but police job starts when consensus breaks down
2. Democracy est govt to serve people but police make people do/don't let them do
what they want sometimes
3. Basic tenet is freedom but again, police can take away freedom
• major dimensions of community policing -✓✓1. The philosophical dimension
2. The strategic dimension
3. The tactical dimension
4. The organizational dimension
• Philosophical dimension -✓✓Includes the central ideas and belief underlying COP;
such as the necessity of citizen input, the broad nature of the police function and the
need for police to provide tailored and personal service to the public.
, • Strategic dimension -✓✓Provides the link between the broad ideas and beliefs that
underlie COP and the specific programs and practices by which it is implemented
• strategic elements of community policing -✓✓1. Alternative police operational
strategies
2. A sharper geographic focus
3. A stronger emphasis on prevention
• Tactical dimension -✓✓Of community policing ultimately translates ideas,
philosophies, and strategies into concrete programs, practices and behaviors.
• important tactical elements of COP -✓✓1. Positive interactions with the public
2. Partnerships
3. A problem-oriented approach to police work
• Organizational dimension -✓✓Directly addresses the changes in police organization,
administration, managements and supervision that might be required to support and
facilitate the implementation of COP.
• Structure -✓✓How authority, responsibility and tasks are arranged in the pd
• Management -✓✓The process of running the org and dealing with emps
• Information -✓✓Types of data and info that are needed and systems to provide info
• How homeland security made police role more broad -✓✓1. Allocate more resources
to critical infrastructure
2. Security for special events and dignitaries
3. Intelligence activities
4. Terrorism-related investigations
5. Port security
6. Airport security
• safety and security -✓✓The already broad role of police now includes responsibilities
more associated with ___.
• Guiding principle 1 -✓✓The police are a general-purpose government agency that
provides a wide variety of services to the community, including but not limited to law
enforcement and crime control.
• Guiding principle 2 -✓✓The police get their authority from the law, the community,
political superiors, and the police profession, and are ultimately responsible to each of
these sources of authority.
