Changing Face of Police Management For law enforcement agencies to succeed its current leadership style and practices must change to keep up with these progressive times. The old authoritarian style of leadership of conformity and unyielding compliance will no longer work today. One of the reasons for law enforcement agencies to prepare now rather later is because the face of law enforcement is evolving. As veteran officers retire a new generation of police officers are being hired and are currently or soon will be leaders in their agencies. To prepare for this eventuality, law enforcement agencies need to develop them by using a shared leadership model, by enhancing their communication skills as well as creating a strategic plan for their agency. By addressing these key issues, agencies will become more successful in obtaining its organizational goals. For an organization is to succeed they need to understand the generational differences between the specific generations affecting law enforcement, “Baby Boomers”, “Generation X” and “Generation Y.” In an article written by McCafferty, he describes the differences of the generations: Demands on police officers in the past 30 years have grown dramatically with the increasing threats to social order and personal security. Selection of police officers has always been difficult, but now with the increasing demand and complexity of police work, along with the candidates applying from Generation X and even Generation Y, the selection process has become more critical. The personal characteristics attributed to Generation X and in the future, Generation Y should be factored into the selection process to ensure that those individuals selected as police officers will be able to cope with what has been described as the impossible mandate of police work in a free society… As “baby