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For the final question of your interview, the interviewers tell you to pretend for a moment that you are the new chief of police in their police department. You are aware that the department has had numerous substantiated cases of corruption ranging from officers taking bribes from drug dealers to more minor offenses of officers accepting free food and coffee while they are on duty. You are also aware that one of your executive officers, a member of your management team, has been the subject of the highest number of investigations of corruption, but each time he has been exonerated.

Explain what actions you will take that will make an immediate impact on changing the culture of corruption within the department. What will you do long-term about this issue of corruption in your agency?

Also explain how your actions in your professional and personal life will make it easier or more difficult for you to
change the culture of corruption that exist in the agency

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Explain what actions you will take that will make an immediate impact on changing the culture of corruption within the department. What will you do long-term about this issue of corruption in your agency?

The immediate actions to take is to fire your executive officer who has faced many allegations of corruption. The "absence" of a conviction is "not" enough for someone who is sworn to uphold the law as many different allegations against "one" person mandates that this person is removed from their position when they are a ...

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