Evaluation and improvement of officer performance are obviously critical aspects of risk management and liability prevention. Assuring core competencies and adherence to professional standards is as important as anything we do internally. But police work is sufficiently different from other types of governmental endeavor as to require a separate and different system of employee evaluation.
Last month's column discussed why law enforcement evaluation systems have failed historically. This article describes an evaluation system that is more relevant and less subjective than those used in the past. The system can be used as a tool of employee recognition even if it is not used as a …