.You are the Sheriff of an agency in a county that has
severe economic challenges. The workforce in your county is experiencing a
significant increase in unemployment due to lay-offs of personnel.
One of your agency’s responsibilities is to serve civil
process. Your agency has received a significant increase in serving notices of
evictions due to primarily the economic conditions of the county. Most citizens
empathize with the citizens being evicted from their homes and an increased
level of anger is directed at your deputies by the public for serving the
eviction notices.
As Sheriff, what approaches would you utilize to diffuse
the public’s anger at your deputies and increase community relations between
your agency and the citizens its serves.
List at least three detailed
approaches you would utilize to develop a strategic
plan for restoring community relations in this scenario. One of the approaches
must include how you would utilize the media in this
scenario. Post your answers. Read the postings of
your colleagues.
Students’ postings and responses on the discussion forum
should be very
detailed and reflect critical thinking skills. Your posting to
the questions should be a minimum of 200 words. Your posting to the questions
should provide a minimum of 2 references in APA format in the body of your
posting to support your perspective.