Strengths And Weaknesses Of Duplin County Sheriff's Office

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B1: Strengths There are strengths and weaknesses in every agency. Some strengths for the Sheriff’s Office is the high quality of staff and the ability for employees to make a decision without a manager’s approval. The majority of employees have multiple years of experience in law enforcement or they have degrees in fields that help them perform better in their job. The employees are well rounded and are capable of handling multiple situations. They also have several employees that speak other languages. With employees that are of high quality, it helps make the entire office function as a whole better to perform the jobs needed. To keep a good quality of staff, each member has to go to regular training and classes. It does cost the county …show more content…
Duplin County Sheriff’s Office has a few weaknesses. One of their main weaknesses is the quality of the management staff. Not all managers there are of top manager quality. Some of the managers there have the lack of experience and drive to be a manager. There are some managers that are good at their job and deserve to be in that position. The managers that were given the position of managers without having what it take to be a manager made it to that position by becoming close friends with the Sheriff. While being close with your top manager is a good thing, it is not the main quality that a manager should …show more content…
While law enforcement in it self is not looked at the best right now with the public anyway, Duplin County Sheriff’s Office faces their own struggles. The Sheriff’s Office previous Sheriff made a lot of enemies while on the job and a lot of people began to look at the Sheriff’s Office negatively. The public did not trust the office, causing an issue because the public should be able to trust law enforcement. Now the current Sheriff and the entire office are trying to overcome that negative perception. Each employee has to help ensure to the public that they can be trusted and they will perform their job the best they can. To meet the goal of the Sheriff’s Office, the employees have to do their best to make the perception of the entire office

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