Question

The project will be directed at improving policing. How to make Police / City Accountable about Body Cameras:

Here are the details for the city:

The city is Ottawa New Mexico

The city population is 250,000 citizens

The city has been sued 12 times over last year for being insensitive towards its citizens

The city has a 75 person police force

65 police cars/SUV(s)

a few notes about the city:

The police department is detached from the community

85% of the community is considered poor

Department has been known for Harassment, excessive force, numerous lawsuits.

You being the program/project manager/consultant - how would/could you improve these conditions for the community and make the city and police accountable for their actions? You have been hired by the city council to be an independent representative.

example: milestones, Alignment of projects with Organization Strategy, Project life cycle, project teams, organizational politics, accountability, checklist, Matrix Organization Structure, and Gantt charts.

The group will select its Project manager. There will be up to $60,000 in bonus money per group. The city is depending on you the project manager to make the recommendation necessary to improve the city issues.

Answer 1

Answer-
As per the details mentioned in the case study the problem in Mexico is that the police is detached from the community. The police department has been known for its harassment, excessive force and numerous lawsuits. Most of the people living in the community are considered poor. The police has been sued more than 12 times to be in sensitive towards its citizens.
As a project manager I have to develop policies to improve the police accountability.
The recommended to improve the city issues are as follows-
1. Community-based accountability- the role of the police is to implement policies and there are directly responsible to the people they said. There are variety of ways by which the collaboration between police and community can be increased. Police review meeting should be held by monthly in which there open to the community. Senior Police officers should take meeting with the local community. In this meeting all the problem should be discussed and the solutions should be implemented. Community representatives and the municipality should work together. Open situation and hearings related to the police complaints should be conducted and disciplinary actions should be taken.
An important aspect for the police to build trust among the people is transparency. Police provides information to the community should be transparent. This will allow mutual respect between them. The people should also wear body cameras in providing protection to the people and executing their rights. This will strengthen the rights of the civilian with the police record interactions.
2. Political accountability-
The police is accountable to the political leaders. The political leader are accountable to the people in general. Political check related to the work of the police officials must be regular. The political pressure will adopt the police department to use best practices in dealing with people. The political check will ensure public trust in the police that the police action is fair and transparent . Police should be given by trainings and prevent them to consider racial bias towards people.
3. Independent investigator- There should be establishment of independent special investigator for those Police officers who have been blamed of sever officers. Inquiry should be done on them . If they are found guilty they should be immediately suspended and legal action should be initiated against them.
4. Victim statements- Inclusion of the victims statement who have been suffered by the violence of police officers including the family members should be heard in Fast Track courts. The judgement to this legal issues should be sorted out as fast as possible.

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