Research Paper assignment Instructions Overview This assignment will provide you the opportunity to prepare an academica

Research Paper assignment Instructions

Overview

This assignment will provide you the opportunity to prepare an academically rigorous research paper grounded as a leadership training and development program for Soma City Police Department. This assignment will provide you with the opportunity to reflect upon the leadership traits you have learned about throughout the course and to share how they can be applied to improve the leadership and morale of the Soma-Pseudo City Police Department.

Instructions

This assignment will build upon several assumptions.  You are a new command level officer in a mid-sized local police agency, Soma-Pseudo City Police Department (Pseudonym) brought on board by a new Chief of Police.  You and the Chief previously worked at another very innovative police agency.  The Chief of Police was hired by Soma City upon the dismissal of the previous chief, Jeffrey Cox.

It appears morale was low throughout the department and that much of the low morale was associated with leadership failure and leadership deficiencies. The Chief knows you are taking CJUS 730 – Advanced Criminal Justice Leadership for class and wants to rely upon your expertise to create a dynamic leadership training program for Soma City Police Department.  The program may be a holistic program that incorporates broad based – broad audience leadership training (every leader in the department) or your program may address one specific audience within the department.

The Chief wants the program grounded in solid research that you have learned in your class. The Chief said you may use the research paper in class as your proposal to the chief. The Chief realizes that your proposal will look like an APA academic paper with numerous references and that is okay

The paper should have definitive links to solid leadership research, be relevant to police agency leadership training, and be usable as a leadership training and development proposal. Do not submit a reiteration of the IACP Leadership in Police Organizations training or the associated West Point Leadership training programs – most of your professors are well familiar with these programs.

You must incorporate a Christian Worldview section in your paper. This paper must reflect graduate level research and writing style.  Please reference the Research Paper Rubric when creating your research paper.

·       The length of the assignment is required to be 15 to 18 pages.

o   The page count does not include the title page, abstract, reference section, or any extra material.

·       This assignment is required to be in current APA format.

·       The minimum number of citations required for this assignment is 15-20 citations.

·       Acceptable sources are required to be recent, relevant, and academic (peer review journals preferred and professional journal allowed if used judiciously) sources with at least 1 source being the Holy Bible and no more than 4 books. You may use .gov sources if the writing is academic in nature (authored works). 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.