COE, Charles K
Police budgeting : winning strategies - Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, nov./dec.2001
Based on a national survey of police chiefs with a fallow-up focus group, this article discusses budgetary strategies that police departments used to be successful in budgeting. The strategies include: using crime and workload data judiciously; capitalizing on sensational crime incidents; effectively getting the message out; carefully mobilizing interest groups; strategic planning'playing the federal grants game; working closely with the chief executive and elected officials; and involving all departmental staff levels in budgeting
Police budgeting : winning strategies - Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, nov./dec.2001
Based on a national survey of police chiefs with a fallow-up focus group, this article discusses budgetary strategies that police departments used to be successful in budgeting. The strategies include: using crime and workload data judiciously; capitalizing on sensational crime incidents; effectively getting the message out; carefully mobilizing interest groups; strategic planning'playing the federal grants game; working closely with the chief executive and elected officials; and involving all departmental staff levels in budgeting
