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Police management studies from the 1950s through the 1980s featured the span of control concept. However, as policing started to move organizationally from a tall hierarchy to a more flattened organizational, the span of control concept began to fade from the literature.
This article presents findings from a survey of law enforcement administrators that analyzed the "span of control" (the number of people with whom a supervisor is responsible for communicating) in their departments.
Official ratios of officers to sergeant (sometimes called the “span of control”) generally range from 4:1 to 15:1, with an average of approximately seven officers to each sergeant. See, e.g., PERF, Supervision , supra, at 19.
Span of control. This refers to the number of lines of communication that one individual can realistically maintain. The actual number will vary depending on a range of factors, such as the: capacity of the individual person. availability and capacity of technology. complexity of the information.
1 sty 2005 · The second attribute of the authority hierarchy is the span of control (Soujanen, 1955, Udell, 1967). Span of control refers to the ratio of supervisors (at one level) to the number of workers (at the next lower level).
26 lip 2018 · Police departments have multiple structures, tasks, technologies, and processes. First, departments are quasi-military structures with multiple tasks. Much of this can be conceived of in terms of span of control, namely, how many subordinates one person can supervise.
Span of Control for Law Enforcement Agencies. Author: Troy Lane. Summary: The responses from the administrators indicate that many agencies prefer lower spans of control (lower number of officers per supervisor), which necessarily leads to multiple layers of management.
