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This is the questionnaire that formed the basis for all the interviews.
Top Cops
Questionnaire for chief officers
1. Would you describe your role as ‘baron’, ‘boss’, ‘bobby’, ‘bureaucrat’ (Reiner 1991) or as something else?
What is your current role?
How would you describe your leadership style? Is it, for example, transactional, or transformational, or facilitative, or situational, or a blend depending on circumstances or something else entirely?
2. How do you develop people? Are the same opportunities available now as you had, or are they better or worse?
3. Can you estimate roughly what proportions of your time you spend on
• Relations with your police authority, or similar oversight body
• Performance management and targets
• Relations with HMIC and the Home Office/political parties
• Public relations and reassurance issues
• Police command and directing
• Duty as ‘Gold’ command or its equivalent?
4. How did you become a chief officer? Deliberate and planned ambition? Happy accident? Someone's influence? Mentoring? Other?
5. How do you get people to follow you?
6. Has leadership in the police changed since you joined? How? What has stayed the same?
7. What is your view of the practice of ACPO spokespeople for business areas? What is yours (in general terms if you wish)? How important is it? How much of your time does strategic national work of this kind occupy?
8. How would you describe your relationships with your peers, both inside and outside the force or organisation in which you serve?
9. What ambitions remain for you in policing? What about outside policing?
10. How secure in the job do you feel? Is it ever a case of ‘uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’ or not?
11. What things need urgent changing in policing? How would you change them?
12. What is your view of multiple direct entry to the police (including to chief officer)? What is your view of the government's avowal in its 2008 Green Paper to stay with ‘constable entry only’ into the police?
13. Could someone without your experience (indeed, with no experience of the police at all) still do your job?
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