| A | B |
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| Beat | The smallest geographical area an individual officer can patrol |
| Blue Fle | An action by officers in which they call in sick as a way of refusing to perform certain job functions |
| Chain of Command | A managerial concept whereby each individual in an organization is supervised and report to one immediate supervisor |
| Civil Service System | a method of hiring and managing government employees that is designed to eliminate political influence, favoritism, nepotism, and bias |
| Civilianization | the process of removing sworn officers from noncritical or nonenforcement tasks and replacing them with civilians or nonsworn employees |
| Community Service Officers | An entry-level police employee without general law enforcement powers |
| Lateral Transfers | the ability and opportunity to transfer from one police department to another |
| Nonsworn (civilian) members | those people in the police department who are not given traditional police powers |
| Platoon | all of the people working on a particular tour or shift; supervised by a lieutenant |
| Precinct | the entire collection of beats in a given geographic area; the organizational headquarters of a police department |
| Quasi-military organization | an organization similar to the military |
| Reserve Officer | either part-time compensated or noncompensated police employees who serve when needed |
| Span of Control | the number of officers or subordinates that a supervisor can supervise effectively |
| Squad | a group of officers who generally work together all the time under the supervision of a particular sergeant |
| Sworn members | those people in the police organization we usually think of as police officers, troopers, or deputy sheriffs. They are given trational police powers by the state and local laws |
