Research and select a law enforcement agency (preferably in your community) in relation to outlining a strategic planning process. Make sure you are able to access information about the agency for all the required parts of the assignment. Do not use massive federal agencies, for example: ATF, DEA, or the FBI. Make sure you are using a legitimately constituted law enforcement agency. This agency must be identified by name, as it will be the foundation for upcoming assignments. Also, you cannot use any of the strategic plans that are shown in course materials, especially the one from the Scottsdale, AZ Police Department. I suggest you review each week’s assignment and course resources before committing to an agency.
Assess the public safety issues in your selected law enforcement organization as they correlate with the agency’s mission, vision, and goals.
Create an APA-style (full sentience) outline of at least one page that details the initial steps in the strategic planning process for the selected criminal justice organization and correlating public safety issues. Chapter One of the Bryson text defines a strategic plan as “. . . a deliberative, disciplined approach to producing fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why” (p. 7). The plan must be for the agency as a whole; it cannot be a plan for an individual unit or separate division such as the detective division, SWAT team, etc., or in response to a single issue, such as civil unrest, COVID-19, or mass shootings. The outline is 50% of the content grade. Headings for outline sections should be the same as the objectives given in the assignment. For example: if the objective says, “Identify specific public safety issues/challenges,” the outline heading for that section should say the same thing.
Include the following in your outline:
Identify by name or position relevant stakeholders, both internal and external, and describe their roles in the strategic planning process. You should have a minimum of four internal stakeholders and five external stakeholders (there are many listed in your textbooks and examples are posted in Course Resources; do not guess at what they are).
Identify specific public safety issues/challenges – there must be more than three and specific crime issues must be included
List strategies for scanning and assessing issues/challenges (the S.A.R.A. model will be of some assistance
Describe in detail data and resources needed to address the issues/challenges
