Search results
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.
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.
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.
A typical span of control in police organizations is between 5 to 10 subordinates per supervisor, depending on the complexity of tasks. As organizations grow, they often reassess their span of control to ensure efficient management and communication flow.
29 wrz 2017 · In addition, ICS uses manageable span of control. This concept goes all the way back to Napoléon and refers to a supervisor only being responsible for three to seven subordinates, with five being optimal.
4 cze 2020 · The span of control for a chief, then, can also yield many different directions tied to police unions, the agendas of their bosses and local government and officials (including city...
1 sty 2005 · Span of control refers to the ratio of supervisors (at one level) to the number of workers (at the next lower level). This indicator differs from one rank layer to the next and the ratio is usually smaller near the top of the rank structure hierarchy than at the bottom ( Beckmann, 1978 , p. 7).
