| Abstract |
Starting from Weber's thinking about the organization, the paper was designed with the aim of analyzing the current research of managers and leadership styles in the police and their impact on the police organization. The paper presents an overview of six cumulative stages of management development within the police, and the principles of management, i.e. by its traditional and proactive approaches we explain the duties of the police: to respond, to regulate, to restrain, to recover, to suppress and to intensify. Over the years, the police have developed and passed on newer models of duties. Therefore, the paper presents the profile of the manager in the traditional, business and community policing model. The community policing model, in post-socialist countries, was used to transform the militia into a modern democratic police force. In this way, the community policing was adopted and enforced by decree without adequate personnel, material or legal resources. Several studies conducted on police officers' samples (Karlovie, 2012, Cajner Mraovie, Faber, 2016, Borovec, Prpie, 2017) showed that one part of the reform or planned projects within the community policing model was not implemented or did not achieve sustainable results, it is precisely about projects concerning the internal democratization of the police. Given that these researches are carried out on different instruments, at different times and on ihfferent samples of police officers in the Republic of Croatia, it is necessary to unify them and to collectively observe to date results and knowledge about the implementation of modern democratic police such as the community policing model. In addition to lacking researches on police and management in Croatia, there is also a lack of research on the implementation of democratic models of police, such as community policing. |