Supervising Police Personnel: The Fifteen Responsibilities

by Paul M. Whisenand

Book Overview

Supervising Police Personnel the Fifteen Responsibilities, Custom Edition, Paperback by Paul Whisenand. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131722379
• ISBN13: 9780131722378
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Compliments a class for new supervisors well.

The book was used as part of a week long class and complimented it well. (I don't know if I would have gotten as much from it just reading the book alone.) The book isn't going to teach you everything you need to know about being a supervisor, but it makes good points and has gook information.

How to Run a Police Department in an Ideal World

Supervising Police Personnel contains some good information, but it is NOT written for Police Officers. The second half of the title "The 15 Responsibilities" really appeals to administrators. It lets them think they are giving the people under them clear-cut guidelines without requiring them to actually read the text. I don't know who Mr. Whisenand's intended audience was, but from reading his text I suspect it was written for psychologists. He has some simple, clear, and viable ideas that could be a benefit to any field; unfortunately he has hidden these pearls of wisdom within page after page of psychobabble. The first 35 pages of this book can be summarized as, "You have to know yourself before you can lead anyone else." This lesson, like many others in his book, is good. Many of them are ideas that seem to have been lost from the field of police work. The language he uses and the wordiness of his book keep the information from reaching the audience. I think that Mr. Whisenand is probably a fine person, but he does not communicate effectively through the written word. But before he writes anymore books on Police Work I think it would benefit him to actually DO the job he is writing about, he might even enjoy the change in perspective.