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Police Chief Qualifications

COMPARISON OF QUALIFICATIONS: AMERICAN CHIEF OF POLICE AND BRITISH SENIOR POLICE ADMINISTRATOR

This research compares the qualifications required for appointment as an American Chief of Police with those required for appointment as a British Senior Police Administrator. Alternative title are employed in both Britain and the United States for these positions; however, the terms are used in this research to denote the senior line officer within a police organization. Requirements for either the position of police chief or senior police administrator vary in each country according to jurisdiction; however, the greatest differences occur between jurisdictions of significantly different sizes. In this research, the focus is on the senior police line officers in major urban jurisdictions.

The basic qualifications for chief of police/senior police administrator are those associated with experience, training, and education (Leonard and More, 1987). In the United States, in the contemporary time period, most major urban jurisdictions establish minimums for years of experience in law enforcement, as a qualification for appointment as chief of police. Typically, such requirements begin at 15 years. Some basic field experience is expected of applicants; however, at least twothird of an applicant's law enforcement experience is expected to be in command and supervisory positions. In Britain, the trend toward a requirement for highlevels of experience in police management as a requisite for appointment as senior police administrator has been becoming increasingly stronger for the past two decades (Kinsey and Lea, 1986). The increasing concentration on command and supervisory experience in both countries tends to cause some rankandfile police officers to feel that the senior officers of a department are out of touch with the situation on the streets.

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