Ohio State Highway Patrol Case Study

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| Course project | |Enhancing the Synergy of the Ohio State Highway Patrol | | | | | |Toby J. Smith | |…show more content…
Our Superintendent Col. Tom Rice was a visionary who recognized the fact that the Ohio State Highway Patrol was going to be asked to take on additional responsibility and patrol. This was new territory for development. No other administrations were asked to do what Col. Rice was tasked with. The energy and optimistic insight to the future was being authored by Col. Rice's charismatic and passionate culture he created within the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Throughout my 22 years I've noticed significant culture changes within our organization. Cynical energy emanates throughout the Ohio Patrol changing the organizational from a positive optimistic growth to pessimistic low energy stagnation. Negativity towards the command administration / senior staff has developed an” us versus them mentality.” As responsibilities have grown and new challenges arise changes can be recognized in the organizational culture of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Additional changes in generations have begun to take effect on an organization based on paramilitary structure. The younger generations being recruited into the Ohio State Patrol tend to be reluctant to adapt the traditions of paramilitary way of life once held sacred. Despite the continued rise in employee termination and increased administrative investigations the staff of the Ohio Patrol Command fails to recognize the true causing…show more content…
A significant date beginning on September 11, 2001 began officially the war on terror. This war was never figured into the budgets and training of local police departments. In turn these woes experienced by police departments during the Great Recession causing external events impacting police budgets. “The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the Great Recession, this chapter places these events since 2000 in an economic context.” (Irwin, 2011) In addition, multiple interviews with police administrators, survey data, and news media content, are used to analyze police budget cuts. Most police administrators have already cut their budgets and report their jurisdictions anticipate more effects from the economic crisis. Significant reductions in police budgets, personnel and training are discussed. Both a police administrator and academic perspective of policing in an economic crisis are included in this chapter to better understand how recent budgets cuts affect the quality of policing. With all the changes in the budget and the realigning a personnel the desire for law enforcement officer to go out and do the job becomes a challenge. Morale begins to deteriorate because of the

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