Police Unions (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Police UnionsAs police personnel increased, the personal relationship between the administrator and all members of the force became more remote. Adequate salaries, pension and retirement benefits, adjustment of working hours and other employment conditions were largely secured at the instigation of the police administrator or not at all.The police department became an employing unit, with most of the employment problems of a private agency along with those unique to public service.Legal reforms, civil service, limitation of political interference, and a movement within the police profession itself to define standards and improve service solved many, but not all, of the problems.Members of individual police departments organized local fra ternal, social or benefit clubs which became concerned with employ ment conditions as well as social activities, recreation, raising funds for disabled officers or widows of officers, and other charitable func tions. These organizations soon became spokesmen for police per sonnel in matters of employment conditions. They were encouraged by the police administrator and recognized as a valuable morale factor in the department.Today fraternal, social and benefit clubs or organizations exist in practically every police department of any size.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.