You will prepare and submit a term paper on How to Motivate Employees in the Chicago Police Department. Your paper should be a minimum of 2750 words in length. The standard of work in the police department is exceptionally high and so is the workload for the police officers. In a majority of the police stations around the world and those in the developing and the underdeveloped countries, the conditioning, as well as conditions of the police officers belonging to the lower ranks, are poor unconscionably. Police officers commonly work in continuous shifts of 24 hours without any rest and often are required to remain in the sub-standard barracks. Deficient training in the examination of the crime scene and other investigative techniques exacerbate their inadequate conditions. In addition to that, police officers seriously lack resources. Those at the police stations do not have the basic necessities that people in other careers have. In the underdeveloped and the developing countries, conditions are even worse. many complaints of the public remain unregistered because of the shortage of paper since it frequently goes out of stock, there are either no vehicles or when there are some, there is no petrol. In addition to that, irrational provisioning results in the cases where essential peripherals, training for their use, and the contracts of maintenance are not available even if such hardware as computers, forensic devices, radio sets, and mobile equipment is made available to the police officers (Hossain, 2011, p. 5). It is quite understandable that the lower rank officers working in these circumstances are discontented, unmotivated, and surly.

Unmotivated police officers can be easily distinguished from the motivated police officers because of their attitude. Unmotivated police officers come to work with either a bad attitude or without any attitude. They tend to coast doing the bare minimum if not lesser. Unmotivated police officers tend to be indifferent to everything related to police or get hostile when they are required to do something.