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Essay on Structure of Metropolitan Police

   

Added on  2021-02-19

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ANALYZEMETROPOLITAN POLICEWITH SIMILARORGANIZATION

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTIONThe Metropolitan Police Service also known as MPS is a territorial police force that isresponsible for the enforcement of the law within the district of Metropolitan Police that atpresent includes 32 London Boroughs (Emsley, 2014). This agency was formed on 29 Septemberin the year 1829 and the aim of this organization is to co- ordinate and lead UK on a nationalcounter- terrorism matter and also for protecting the Royal family. The present essay will discuss the structure of Metropolitan police and similarorganization. Further, it will discuss about the culture prevalent in the agency. In the end, thediscussion will be done to identify the role and impact of the central and local government onallocation of resources and its impact in accountability and monitoring.MAIN BODYStructure of Metropolitan Police and comparison with similar organizationIt is very necessary for every organization to have a structure and to work in accordancewith the structure. This is because of the reason that if the work will be done in the though waythen it will be easy to manage the work on time and with efficiency. This is also due to thereason that deciding the organizational structure helps all the employees to in advance that whatwork they have to do and in what time. This helps the employee in understanding the work inadvance and if they have any doubt then it can be cleared well before performing the task. Thereare many different types of structure which can be followed by the company to ease the workand to ensure that work is done with effectivity and good productivity.The structure followed by Metropolitan Police is the functional structure. This is becauseof the reason that the MPS divides its work based upon the functions performed by the company.This agency has divided its work under five directorates which are like Frontline policing, MetOperations, Specialist Operations, Directorate of Professionalism and other shared supportservices. This type of structure helps Metropolitan Police to easily divide the work as they knowif the person is good in front line policing then they have to be placed under that functional unitand if it can perform the function of specialist operation then it has to be placed under thatspecific function (Eitle, D’Alessio and Stolzenberg, 2014). But in contrast to this another similar agency that is City of London Police. This is ahome office of police force that is responsible for the London city including the Inner andMiddle temple and the MPS is responsible for the rest of London except this part which is under

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