Basic guidelines for officers working here.....

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Major complaint .......You can come to work at this place, and the state laws that have been changed from what you know or the way you do things change, and there is no updates given about the changes. The worst is the department guidelines that come out almost daily on how you are suppose to do things when there are General Orders to go by, and no email was ever sent out. It ends up just common knowledge on how things should be done through word of mouth on it, and no email was even sent out!....., you are just supposed to know it....and if you don't you are f'ing up as an officer...

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Ex= Thanks to Lt. Booker, "as you may know" ....instructions of how to attach how to attach a CRA to an SRR. The exact opposite as we were trained to do...huh ? When the hell did this information come out in an email of the change ..?

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A command staff member has a conversation with someone regarding any topic. Tells this person they need to start doing whatever thus they proceed as professionals and begin to do so. However, that command staff member doesn't tell anyone else. So for months this one squad does what they were told, everyone else is doing what they had previously been told. The other squads proceed to ***** about the one squad that is different which as usual damages morale. Then the command staff member who failed to communicate his or her directive with anyone else one day notices of out the blue that we are all pieces of shit for not doing what someone else had been told. Then proceeds to blame the line supervisors for not communicating enough with one another and the officers for not following instructions. This is life as we've known it for years.

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Right, changing things on a whim because they can but not particularly because they are more efficient or make sense in any way, and then not accepting responsibility for getting the word out re: these changes upon themselves but upon someone else who had nothing to do with said change.

The logic here has been lost and cannot be found. It is obvious to most that most of these changes are just nonsense and have no basis in streamlining our processes or making us better at what we do as Officers.

It is not as if these people are too busy to write a memo, so that cannot be it!

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Those last two posts were spot on! That is one of the major things that are very wrong here and difficult to deal with. Officers have General Orders to go by, but once you learn them, someone is always trying to reinvent the wheel and make changes where only half the people get the information about how to do things...so there is confusion...and talk among officers on how things are to be done...it's all different on every shift and the Sgt. you are working for.

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A command staff member has a conversation with someone regarding any topic. Tells this person they need to start doing whatever thus they proceed as professionals and begin to do so. However, that command staff member doesn't tell anyone else. So for months this one squad does what they were told, everyone else is doing what they had previously been told. The other squads proceed to ***** about the one squad that is different which as usual damages morale. Then the command staff member who failed to communicate his or her directive with anyone else one day notices of out the blue that we are all pieces of shit for not doing what someone else had been told. Then proceeds to blame the line supervisors for not communicating enough with one another and the officers for not following instructions. This is life as we've known it for years.

This is not an accurate statement. The information from SRR was put out in the Supervisors meeting from Maria Zale herself. After she was finished, there was an extensive conversation about the topic among all of the Supervisors and command staff.
There doesn't need to be an email directly to lower line officers for every decision made here. Your Supervisor FAILED to convey job related information. Blame them, not the system.
There is a sense of entitlement at this agency that is unrivaled when it comes to a feeling of having to be told everything that is going on in the world.

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What is on our CRA that cannot be accessed by utilizing public record? One more useless thing to add to our already cluttered way of doing things at USF. This is absolutely ridiculous as we are already completing a seperate report "SRR" that clearly explains the charges, who's involved and felony/misdemeanor level of charging. As for our lack of communication within the department...what's new, nothing will ever change. Good luck fellow USFPD friends.

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This is not an accurate statement. The information from SRR was put out in the Supervisors meeting from Maria Zale herself. After she was finished, there was an extensive conversation about the topic among all of the Supervisors and command staff.
There doesn't need to be an email directly to lower line officers for every decision made here. Your Supervisor FAILED to convey job related information. Blame them, not the system.
There is a sense of entitlement at this agency that is unrivaled when it comes to a feeling of having to be told everything that is going on in the world.

That was absolutely an accurate statement. That happens more often than not at the department. Whomever wrote that was obviously speaking in general terms. Line supervisors often fail to relay information but if you're going to defend to unbelievably poor communication from that command staff you are out of your mind.

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What a funny attempt to cover up the general ineptness of the command staff by one of their own. No one ever said [or asked] that we be told about everything that you guys talk about, but it is quite understandable for us to NEED to know about GLOBAL changes that we are going to be held accountable for. Now, how is that an unreasonable expectation on any planet? Yet, it continues to be very elusive information around here!

Perhaps the graduate Psych Department could be enlisted to have one of their students do a capstone project on the command staff at this department. You know, let us lower nothings in on what is going on in your brain buckets. Many of us are very intrigued by your thought processes, but neither have the time, nor the inclination to do the post-doctoral forensic research work necessary to unravel the mystery that is our Management Team!

I would surmise that the poor fellow that did volunteer to complete such a study would be involuntary committed inside of a week of the observation of the target subjects.

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What is on our CRA that cannot be accessed by utilizing public record? One more useless thing to add to our already cluttered way of doing things at USF. This is absolutely ridiculous as we are already completing a seperate report "SRR" that clearly explains the charges, who's involved and felony/misdemeanor level of charging. As for our lack of communication within the department...what's new, nothing will ever change. Good luck fellow USFPD friends.

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