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There seems to be no such thing as one single police culture. Depending on organisation, structure and task, culture in the police varies. In this conceptual research, a research model is developed to study impacts of variation in police culture on the extent of intelligence strategy implementation. Strategy implementation is important because failure to carry out strategy can cause lost opportunities and leave police officers reluctant to do strategic planning. Lack of implementation creates problems in maintaining priorities and reaching organisational goals. The strategy execution task is commonly the most complicated and time-consuming part of strategic management. Yet, strategy implementation suffers from a general lack of academic attention. This research paper makes a contribution to police strategy implementation literature by developing a research model to study the extent of intelligence strategy implementation caused by occupational culture in policing.

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organisational values occupational culture national intelligence model research model strategic planning

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Police Culture as a Determinant of Intelligence Strategy Implementation

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