...PERFORMANCE AUDIT REPORT ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC INSPECTIONS AND SPEED LIMITS THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE A PERFORMANCE AUDIT REPORT ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC INSPECTIONS AND SPEED LIMITS IN TANZANIA THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS – TANZANIA POLICE FORCE AND THE MINISTRY OF WORKS A REPORT OF THE CONTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA i PERFORMANCE AUDIT REPORT ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC INSPECTIONS AND SPEED LIMITS THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA National Audit Office of Tanzania Vision To be a centre of excellence in public sector auditing Mission To provide efficient audit services in order to enhance accountablity and value for money in the collection and use public resources Our core values Objectivity Excellence Integrity Peoples Focus Innovation ii PERFORMANCE AUDIT REPORT ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC INSPECTIONS AND SPEED LIMITS Table of Contents Table of Contents........................................................................................iii List of Tables and Figures...........................................................................v Preface.........................................................................................................vii Terminology used in this report.................................................................ix Map of Tanzania showing regions covered in this audit........................x Acronyms and Abbreviations...
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...the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. ii Monograph Acknowledgments The Bureau of Justice Assistance wishes to thank Stephen J. Gaffigan, Director of Operations, Community Policing Consortium for supervising and coordinating the preparation of this document with the Consortium Management Team. BJA also acknowledges the members of the Executive Board and Advisory Board, who provided a wealth of expertise and information essential to the content of the document. Executive Board Richard Ward Director, Discretionary Grant Programs Division Bureau of Justice Assistance Dan Rosenblatt Executive Director International Association of Chiefs of Police Charles “Bud” Meeks Executive...
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...Final Report Jan Berry Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing Advocate October 2010 Contents Executive Summary 1 Risk (Good Decision Making) 7 Governance Accountability & Performance 10 Continuous Improvement 15 Criminal Justice System 17 Key Processes 24 Technology 29 Reducing Bureaucracy Practitioners Group 31 Executive Summary Introduction Sir Ronnie Flanagan likened bureaucracy to cholesterol; there is both good and bad. The police service is accountable and records need to be kept. Some bureaucracy, enough to run an efficient and effective police service is necessary, but extra layers of bureaucracy have been created to meet the demands of scrutiny and quality assurance, in times when budgets are being cut, the question needs to be asked, what is affordable? Where the requirement to record becomes more important than the quality of the investigation, the balance is wrong. And when quality assurance is more about complying with a set of rigid rules than achieving a successful outcome the balance is also wrong. The checks should not outweigh the balances. Recognition of the negative impact excessive bureaucracy creates has long been understood. Previous Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Sir David O'Dowd and Sir Ronnie Flanagan both made a series of recommendations aimed at reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and prepared costed business plans for change. The reports received considerable support across policing...
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...All police should be required to have tertiary qualifications. Why/ why not? Gaining tertiary qualifications is a large commitment but research has shown that police officers who do have tertiary qualifications, set, and have higher standards. Firstly this essay will argue that police officers with higher education are less likely to use force as a means for compliance. Secondly, police officers with tertiary qualifications display a greater understanding of human behaviour in regards to the community and societal issues. Lastly, this essay will argue that police officers with tertiary qualifications have overall better job performance and attitudes. Therefore this essay will show that police officers should be required to have tertiary qualifications as it allows for a better style of policing. Ensuring police officers have tertiary qualifications will reduce the risk of police officers abusing their authority, therefore societal fear should subside. Research conducted by Paoline III and Terrill (2007) using two data sets (the systematic social observation of police officers and interviews with those officers) shows that having tertiary qualifications will reduce the possibility of police officers using force as a means for compliance. The systematic social observation approach provided data comparing officers with high school education with officers with some form of college/university education and those with a bachelor degree. The results showed that those with a bachelor...
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...CHAPTER 1 MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING IN THE INFORMATION AGE CHAPTER Introduction FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STRESSES ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES THAT RELATE TO PREPARING REPORTS FOR EXTERNAL USERS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION. IN COMPARISON, MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING STRESSES ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES THAT ARE RELEVANT TO PREPARING REPORTS FOR INTERNAL USERS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION. THIS CHAPTER PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE OF MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING IN PLANNING, CONTROL, AND DECISION MAKING. IT ALSO DEFINES IMPORTANT COST CONCEPTS AND INTRODUCES KEY IDEAS THAT WILL BE EMPHASIZED THROUGHOUT THE TEXT. THE CHAPTER CONCLUDES WITH A DISCUSSION OF THE INFORMATION AGE AND THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON BUSINESS, A FRAMEWORK FOR ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING AND THE ROLE OF THE CONTROLLER AS THE TOP MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT. NOTE THAT YOU CAN ENHANCE AND TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHAPTER USING WILEY’S ONLINE RESOURCES, THE SELF-ASSESSMENT QUIZ AND REVIEW PROBLEMS AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER. Objectives, Terms, and Discussions LO1 State the primary goal of managerial accounting. GOAL OF MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING Managers need to plan and control their operations and make a variety of decisions. The goal of managerial accounting is to provide the information managers need for planning, control, and decision making. LO2 Describe how budgets are used in planning. Planning A plan communicates a company's goals to employees and specifies the resources needed...
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...Intruding Ima and the Falsified Report An 8-year employee of your police agency, Officer Ima Goodenough, is a patrol officer who often serves as a field training officer. Goodenough is generally capable and experienced in both the patrol and detective divisions. She takes pride in being of the “old school” and has developed a clique of approximately 10 people with whom she gets along while mostly shunning other officers. As an officer of the old school, she typically handles calls for service without requesting cover units or backup. She has had six complaints of brutality lodged against her during the last 3 years. For Ima and her peers, officers who call for backup are “wimps.” She has recently been involved in two high-speed pursuits during which her vehicle was damaged when she attempted to run the offender off the road. Ima will notify a supervisor only when dealing with a major situation. She is borderline insubordinate when dealing with new supervisors. She believes that, generally speaking, the administration exists only to “screw around with us.” You, her shift commander, have been angry about her deteriorating attitude and reckless performance for some time and have been wondering whether you will soon have occasion to take some form of disciplinary action against her. You have also learned that Ima has a reputation among her supervisors as being a “hot dog.” Some of her past and present supervisors have even commented that she is a “walking time bomb”...
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...IMT 4762 Risk Management 1 Report Police Group: Sumanth Ramanujapuram Vinay Krishna Vemuri Deming Yin 27.9.2013 1 0. Executive Summary As we have been reviewing the current situation of Skyri police, the duties and tasks of Skyri police fall into the following categories: ● Develop effective collaborative solutions with other operators and service providers. ● Coordination of the goals, plans and work of the regional police districts and the special units ● Management of the police service ● Administration services to the public As with other public services in Skyri, the IT services in Skyri police is also outsourced. Currently all IT services are run by the new supplier “ITALL” since last year. Since there are only two IT employees in Skyri who also take care of other public services in Skyri, all the IT problems in Skyri could not be solved on time. In addition, same as other public services in Skyri, there are no ITstrategy and no policies for information security, and the Skyri police doesn’t have a personnel responsible for IT risk management. The employees in Skyri police don’t have IT risk management background. All the risk management tasks has fallen to the management officer, who has no special IT either. We found that information is usually classified inappropriately. We also noticed loss of devices especially USB storage devices that contains sensitive information. This cause confidential issues. There is no response to backup failure and inside attacks either...
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...institute for employment studies publications by IES authors Managing Sickness Absence in the Police Service A Review of Current Practices Hayday S, Broughton A, Tyers C Research Report RR582, Health and Safety Executive, September 2007 [close this print window] commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive The Home Office and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are working together to reduce the number of working days lost to ill health and/or injury in the police forces of England and Wales. They commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to conduct a review of absence policies and management in police forces to inform this process. This review is intended to be used by the Home Office and HSE to develop measures to improve current practice in line with the Ministerial Task Force (MTF) on Health, Safety and Productivity aims and the drive to improve public sector efficiency. The specific aims of the review were to: explore how sickness absence data is used to manage and monitor absence explore views of the current absence management processes among police officers, police staff, line managers, HR and occupational health professionals identify barriers experienced by staff, line managers, occupational health staff and HR staff in following and implementing current policies and procedures in everyday practice, and how these barriers are addressed within the local force. Guidance issued by the HSE, ACAS & CIPD (2006) and research...
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...RESEARCH METHODS IN CRIME AND JUSTICE CHAPTER 1 – THE RESEARCH PRACTICE Chapter Review Questions Respond to each of the following questions using the information from this chapter. 1. During a recent meeting of the command staff at a mid-sized police department, the chief asks the patrol captain for his recommendation for new flashlights. The captain responds, “I did a little research and I recommend that we purchase the DryLight, Model X flashlight”. The patrol captain’s research consisted of “asking a few of the officers” what they thought would be a good flashlight. Did the patrol captain actually conduct research? Why or why not? ANSWER: Technically, the patrol captain did some research. He conducted interviews which is a form of data collection. One could argue, however, that the patrol captain’s research was limited (pp. 7-8). 2. Respond to the following statement in 3-5 sentences: Conducting research in the social sciences and in criminal justice in particular is easier than in other sciences because the things we measure are so vague that nobody really cares if we get it right or not. ANSWER: Generally speaking, social science research is more challenging than some of the ‘hard sciences’ because the things social scientists study are difficult to measure objectively. As a result social scientists spend a great deal of time justifying how they measure concepts to their peers (pp. 4-5). 3. Read the following scenarios and identify which of the following...
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...The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Lake County, California, Arrest Policies Project: A Process Evaluation Author(s): Brenda K. Uekert Ph.D. Document No.: 201874 Date Received: September 2003 Award Number: 98-WE-VX-0012 This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federallyfunded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Institute for Law and Justice 1018 Duke Street Alexandria, Virginia Phone: 703-684-5300 Fax: 703-739-5533 E-Mail: ilj@ilj.org Lake County, California, Arrest Policies Project A Process Evaluation April 5, 2000 Prepared by Brenda K. Uekert, Ph.D. Prepared for Lake County, California National Institute of Justice Violence Against Women Office Introduction The Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies Program encourages jurisdictions to implement mandatory or pro-arrest policies as an effective domestic violence intervention that is part of a coordinated community response. Congress appropriated funds for the Arrest Program under the Violence Against Women Act (1994). The Program assumes that the arrest of a...
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...Police departments across the country are trying to find ways to combat crime, this paper will address two preventive measures namely, predictive policing and compstat. “Predictive policing, in essence, is taking data from disparate sources, analyzing them and then using results to anticipate, prevent and respond more effectively to future crime,” (Pearsall, B, May 2010). It was never meant to replace police officers but to give those officers opportunities to improve policing. “The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen,” (Shurkin, J.N. September 13, 2011). Some years ago there was a T V show called Numbers and they solved crimes using a mathematical algorithm. The compstat model was not designed to replace police officers but to improve their jobs. “CompStat model is a management process within a performance management framework that synthesizes analysis of crime and disorder data, strategic problem solving, and a clear accountability structure,” (Weisburd 2003). These methods were designed to help police officers stop crimes before they happened. By comparing information technology to optimize performance to reduce crime versus patrolling the streets,” Compstat provided a road map to getting officers back to fighting crime. It also held police managers accountable for fighting crime,” (Willis, J. J...
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...prevent and respond more effectively to future crime (Pearsall, n.d). In an attempt to effectively compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets, first you need to examine what information technology is available to police today. The term predictive policing is the name given to “any policing strategy or tactic that develops and uses information and advanced analysis to inform forward-thinking crime prevention” (Predictive Policing Symposium, 2010). Information technology is “the collection of computing systems used by the organization” (Turban & Volonino, 2011). Information technology (IT) is used to optimize the performance of police departments’ and reduce crime where prior to information technology, it was necessary for police officers to physically, patrol the streets in random locations in order to reduce crime. Police use information technology tools at almost every stage, including allocation of sources, patrolling, crime prevention, crime tracking, hot pursuits, and crime solving. New technologies have changed drastically in our ways of thinking, our perceptions, our attitudes, and even our community. The importance of IT has increased a lot in many organizations, not only police because it assists in performing their tasks. Unlike traditional means of communication, information technology transfers additional information more quickly at a lower cost in...
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...The Cincinnati Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency of the City of Cincinnati. The primary responsibilities of the Police Department are: Prevention of crime, protection of life and property, suppression of criminal activity, apprehension and prosecution of offenders, regulation of non-criminal conduct, and preservation of public peace. The vision of the Cincinnati Police Department is to be recognized as the standard of excellence in policing. The mission of CPD is to “develop personnel and manage resources to promote effective partnerships with the community to improve the quality of life through the delivery of fair and impartial police services while maintaining an atmosphere of respect for human dignity.†This mission is accomplished through the core values of the department on a daily basis. These core values include: •Integrity – Our actions and relationship with the community are guided by an internal sense of honesty and morality. •Professionalism – Our conduct and demeanor display the highest standard of personal and organizational excellence. •Diversity – Our members recognize differences as strength in our organization and community. •Accountability – Our duty is to promote public trust by upholding our obligations to the department and community. •Vigilance – Our responsibility is to be alert to issues and activities impacting our community. Under the command of the Police Chief, the Police Department’s...
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...6, 2015 Name: Donna Marie Brown (Donnabrown119) Course: Intro to Forensic Psychology Instructor: Doctor Findley Unit 2: Psychologists’ Roles in Criminal Justice Kaplan University Donna Brown Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Psychologists’ Roles within the Legal System Introduction A forensic psychologist has many roles to participate in within the legal system. This would include: the basic scientists, the applied scientists, policy evaluator, and the consultant. These roles have different responsibilities and they might even help in or give attention to different areas and environments within the legal system. Within the legal system, a psychologist can examine several personalities which includes the arresting police officer to the actual victim. There are actually many ethical responsibilities and matters that can ascend. And now I will elaborate on the roles that the psychologist plays in each environment. (Greene, & Heilbrun, 2013) Basic Scientist A basic scientist engages in knowledge, and this is for its own sake. The scientist analyses an occurrence for the fulfillment of comprehending it and providing a scientific enhancement. (Greene & Hailbrun, 2013) Law Enforcement and Corrections are two opportunities of the basic scientist. As long as the psychologist has a comprehension of a specific area, psychologists can participate in educating their self in this specific area. The basic scientist typically manages employment in the territories...
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...There is a demand for a range of goods and services, and to survive in this competitive environment, organizations need to align their strategic intent in line with the market requirements. The strategic intent thus shapes the mission statement of the organization, the structure of the organization and the values it follows. The organization then sets its performance goals according to its strategic intent. To achieve these performance goals it has become imperative for organizations to have competent people. Pre-employment selection tests help organizations identify and develop these competent people and play a major role in the today’s hiring process. These tests consist of one or multiple series of tests used to collect information from candidates for the purpose of aiding in hiring decisions and career development. They are also designed to measure how well the candidates communicate, solve problems, handle change, deal with stress, and manage subordinates, in addition to determining whether they have the specific skills and abilities required to perform the job. Employees affect an organization’s performance and profitability, and hiring qualified people costs the company time and money. Although the process of designing and developing job specific tests can sometimes be costly, selection tests can be quite cost effective in the long run as they help organizations match candidates’ skills, personality, and behaviour to job requirements, decreasing turnover and improving...
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