Police Leadership Development: Intentions and Critical Success-Factors

  • Jan Ole Vanebo Nord Troendelag University College of (HiNT)
  • Brita Bjørkelo Norwegian Police University College, Oslo
  • Terje Aaserud Norwegian Police University College, Oslo
Keywords: leadership, police, development, competence, value-based, pipeline, Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Abstract

The Norwegian Police Service (NPS) have been heavily criticized after the 22 July 2011 terror attacks at Utøya and in Oslo. One of the evaluation reports stated three shortcomings in the NPS: culture, attitudes and leadership. Management and leadership in the NPS needs to be improved and strengthened, and this shall take place among other things, with the help of a policy document on Civil Service Leadership, elaborated into a manifest called Plattform for medarbeiderskap (Platform of Employeeship for the NPS). The policy document pertains to how the public sector in general ought to be managed, and the document is based on leadership research and is in accordance with mainstream management theory. The idea of formulating a principle of management that would characterize the classical contributions is also evident in this document. This paper addresses two problems: How can value-based police leadership skills be operationalized and measured, and what are the key critical factors in transferring value-based police leadership principles into improved leadership practices?


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Published
2015-12-01
How to Cite
Vanebo, J., Bjørkelo, B., & Aaserud, T. (2015). Police Leadership Development: Intentions and Critical Success-Factors. Central European Public Administration Review, 13(3-4), pp. 11-26. https://doi.org/10.17573/ipar.2015.3-4.01
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