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Evaluate the need for discipline in the uniformed public services
In evaluating the need for discipline in the public services it is essential to weigh up
the benefits versus the negatives of discipline within the uniformed public services
and then come to a conclusion that determine if discipline is necessary in the
uniformed public services and if so why?
Some of the benefits of discipline are:
 Holding together multiple individuals with many types of personalities and
psychological profiles
 Ensuring that a hierarchical structure is kept in place and orders received and
carried out
 That command and control is in place and followed out to the letter by the
members of service
 That rules and regulations are clearly outlined to the members of the service
and followed
 To reduce conflict between ranks and reduce the culture of them and us
 To ensure that the appropriate behaviour expected of the services members
is understood and carried out, the services image is maintained and improved
 To ensure that those who’s behaviour is not suitable is discovered and
reported
 To reduce internal disputes so that as many resources as possible are freed
up so they can be allocated elsewhere
 To ensure that members are able to achieve self- discipline
 To remove to an extent individuality in favour of a group mentality
 To ensure that the reward and punishment system is understood by the
services members
 To ensure that rank carries respect, and responsibility
 To ensure that there is order within the service and that order will percolate
into the public from the service
 To ensure that the service is respected or feared and not perceived to be
either oppressive or weak, which ever extreme
 To ensure there is a base confidence in every member of the service and they
respect any who have undergone the same training, this leads to mutual
respect
 To be able to ensure that all understand each others responsibilities and roles
associated with the rank that they carry
 To ensure that the public confidence is not disrupted and
images/assumptions that are positive to be maintained e
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the police are
seen as “right” and “honest”
Some of the problems with discipline are:
 That blind obedience may occur and individuals will not question orders that
are wrong, this will lead to crimes being committed, especially a problem
within the military
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Also the
benefits are universal applied to all groups, services individuals, the same does not
hold true with the negatives
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It is discipline that allows the uniformed public services
to function and carry out their role, whilst there are negatives they don’t apply to all
individuals and are often a side effect from the services adoption of discipline rather
than the individual
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In short discipline is needed for the service to function but the service has
yet to work out how to prevent negatives affecting the members of the service and
this is clearly an area of improvement for the services to focus upon if they wish to
improve the quality of the service they provide and ensure that the negatives of
discipline are prevented from occurring

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