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The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) is a civilian police force that is part of the Ministry of Defence. The force is part of the Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency which was formed by the merger of the MDP and Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) on 1 April 2004. The MDP is a special police force. It is responsible for providing police, investigative and guarding services to Ministry of Defence property, personnel and installations (and certain others) throughout the United Kingdom. MDP officers are attested as constables. The MDP has approximately 3,500 police officers based at 110 police units at 86 locations across the United Kingdom. ... Read more

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Title: Opening up multi-agency talk proves a challenging undertaking: legislation would boost law enforcement with wireless radio communication system.(Communications Technology)
Author: Lynne Jeter
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Promising increased efficiency and superior service, the quasi-government has grown as governmental functions have been delegated to new entities combining characteristics of public- and private-sector organizations. Jonathan Koppell argues that control of public policy is sacrificed when public policy is carried out by such hybrid organizations. Although they may be designed to limit the loss of public control, Koppell suggests that quasi-government should be limited to tasks that are not of critical importance to policy-makers. ... Read more

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Guidance on Governance in Uncertain Times
As policy makers reflect on how to restructure major U.S. financial institutions and regulators, few resources are likely to be as helpful as Jonathan G.S. Koppell's study:The Politics of Quasi-Government--Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control.Koppell reviews the literature on organizational structure and undertakes lengthy case studies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, among other institutions.

Among Koppell's bonafidesinclude time working for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), the safety and soundness regulator of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.[In July 2008, OFHEO was merged with the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) to form the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)].Koppell studied at the Berkeley Department of Political Science and worked at the Yale School of Management as of 2003.

Koppell defines a new term:hybrid organization.

....A hybrid organization is an entity created by the federal government (either by act of Congress
....or executive action) to address a specific public policy purpose.It is owned in whole or part
....by private individuals or corporations and/or revenue to cover its operating costs (p. 12).

In his framework, government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are a type of hybrid distinguished by private ownership, profitability and advantages derived from the organization's special relationship with the federal government (p. 14).

Koppell is especially interested in comparing the performance of government agencies with hybrids.Government agencies, for example, are controlled by Congress through administrative controls (legislation, budgets, hearings, appointments, oversight, executive orders, and so) while hybrids are controlled through regulatory controls (laws, regulations, policies, federal regulation, and so on) (pp. 38-46).

Koppell divides preference of principals, like Congress, into four categories:mission-related, non-mission-related, positive preferences, and negative preferences.He argues that hybrids are more likely to respond to negative, non-mission-related preferences because such preferences are easier to measure (pp. 71-75).

In making his case, he reviews the attempts of the Clinton Administration to increase allocation of credit to low-income homebuyers--a positive, mission-related preference.In a comparison of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) response to this preference to the response of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, he concludes that HUD was more responsive (pp. 81-88).

Koppell's careful analysis clearly sees limits to the expression of government policy through the vehicle of the hybrid structure.His interest is, however, narrowly focused on the effectiveness of control mechanisms reflecting his background as a political scientist.Wider topics, like dynamic aspects of organizational behavior or housing market development and efficiency, are not explored.As such, his work may be too focused for some policy analysts.

Dr. Stephen W. Hiemstra
Centreville, VA

Important Subject, Fine Scholarship
Jonathan Koppell has written a fine and subtle analysis of hybrid organizations, ones which combine elements of the private firm with those of the government agency. He shows how such organizations -- Amtrack, the mortgage intermediaries Fredie and Fannie -- can be harder to control from Washington than regular public agencies. He also explores ways in which hybrids can sometimes be very productive instruments for public goals. This is a first-class study of an increasingly important topic. ... Read more

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Transforming Organizations provides in-depth case studies of outstanding government executives who dramatically changed both the performance and management of their organizations. The book includes case studies of Dan Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ken Kizer of the Veterans Health Administration, James Lee Witt of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and four high-ranking government officials who changed procurement in the Department of Defense. In addition, the book includes interviews with NASA Administrator Goldin and FEMA's Director Witt. The volume also includes an essay by Ken Kizer on his experience transforming the Veterans Health Administration. From these case srudies, Mark Abramson and Paul Lawrence develop eight lessons that all executives can learn from in transforming their organization: select the right person, involve key players, engage employees, and perserve. ... Read more

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Whether U.S. terrorism-prevention efforts match the threat continues to be central in policy debate. Part of this debate is whether the United States needs a dedicated domestic counterterrorism intelligence agency. This book examines such an agency's possible capability, comparing its potential effectiveness with that of current efforts, and its acceptability to the public, as well as various balances and trade-offs involved. ... Read more

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While much has been disclosed about the CIA'scloak-and-dagger activities during the Cold War, relatively little isknown about the real origins of this secret organization. DavidRudgers, a 22-year CIA veteran, has written the first complete accountof its creation, revealing how the idea of "centralized intelligence"developed within the government and debunking the myth that former OSSchief William J. Donovan was the prime mover behind the agency'sfounding.

Creating the Secret State locates the CIA's origins ingovernmentwide efforts to reorganize national security during thetransition from World War II to the Cold War. Rudgers maintains thatthe creation of the CIA was not merely the brainchild of "Wild Bill"Donovan. Rather, it was the culmination of years of negotiation amongnumerous policy makers such as James Forrestal and Dean Acheson, eachwith strong opinions regarding the agency's mission and methods. Heshows that Congress, State and Justice Departments, Joint Chiefs, andeven the Bureau of the Budget all had a hand in the establishment ofthis "secret state" that operates nearly invisibly outside theAmerican political process.

Based almost entirely on archival and other primary sources, Rudgers'sbook describes in detail how the CIA evolved from its originalpurpose--as a watchdog to guard against a "nuclear Pearl Harbor"--tothe role of clandestine warriors countering Soviet subversion,eventually engaging in more forms of intelligence gathering and covertoperations than any of its counterparts. It suggests how the agencybecame a different organization than it might have been without theCommunist threat and also shows how it both overexaggerated thedangers of the Cold War and failed to predict its ending.

Rudgers has written an accurate and balanced account that bringsAmerica's undercover army in from the cold and out from under the cultof personality. An indispensable resource for future studies of theCIA, Creating the Secret State tells the inside story of whyand how the agency was called into existence as it stimulates thinkingabout its future relevance in a rapidly changing world. ... Read more

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Good Intentions

This is a well balanced, well documented, and definitive book on the beginnings of the current U.S. intelligence system. It also provides an interesting smaller window on the development of the entire post WWII U.S. National Security Establishment. For all its merits, this book is not for the general reader because it deals with a very small and specialized slice of modern American history. A more general and equally important book, "Flawed by Design" by Amy Zugert (Amazon.com) would be a better choice for individuals who don't wish to deal with the impressive amount of detail that this book provides. Nonetheless this book is indispensable to any anyone wishing to understand the process by which the current U.S. Intelligence System and specifically the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created.

As the author makes clear, the intelligence system that was established was very much the product of the disinterest that senior policy makers and the U.S. Congress had in intelligence matters in the wake of WWII. Excepting for intelligence professionals and some far seeing bureaucrats there were no strong constituencies or lobbying groups who cared about a national intelligence system. The author demonstrates that the CIA in particular was very much a creature of good and bad compromises that were imposed by the legitimate concerns of the military intelligence establishments, the FBI and State Department. Reading this book one is impressed with intelligence and dedication of the military and civilians who ultimately still ended up creating the dysfunctional intelligence system that we have today.

In the course of recounting this story, the author quotes an all but forgotten bureaucrat of the immediate post war era, named John Ohly, who, after reviewing the proposals for a CIA, pointed out that there was a lack, "of an intelligence concept which has been carefully thought out and which serves as a clear guide to the various collection and sources and which permits and requires the establishment of priorities as to areas and subjects." This reviewer knows of no more succinct statement on what is presently wrong with the U.S. Intelligence System.

Deep Insider-Doctoral History, Relevant Today
This is an admirable and unusual work, of doctoral-level quality in its sources and methods, while also reflecting the professional intelligence career status of the author.It complements Amy Zegart's broader book, Flawed By Design, in an excellent manner.This book, focusing as it does on the CIA alone, and on internal sources not readily available to Zegart, fills a major gap in our understanding of the CIA's origins.The author excels at demonstrating both the actual as opposed to the mythical origins of the agency, and pays particular heed to the role of the Bureau of the Budget and that Bureau's biases and intentions.At the end of it all, the author notes that the agency was moving in controversial directions within four years of its birth, quickly disturbing Harry Truman, who is quoted as saying, twenty-years after the fact (in 1963), "For some time I have been distributed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment.It has become an operational arm and at times a policy-making arm of Government....I never had any thought when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak-and-dagger operations." The author himself goes on to conclude that "the nature of the new threats and the revolution in information acquisition and dissemination have thrown traditional ways of intelligence organization, collection, evaluation, and distribution into question....CIA has entered the second half-century of its existence striving to avoid the fate of its OSS parent.In the process, it is groping for new missions and purposes while blighted by the legacy of its past derelictions, and while operating amid a rapidly changing global environment and technological revolution that are rendering its sources, methods, organizations, and mystique obsolete."I would hasten to add, as my own book documents, that we will always have hidden evil in the world and will always needs spies and secret methods to some extent, but this book, combining academic rigor with insider access, must surely give the most intelligent of our policy, legislative, and intelligence managers pause, for it very carefully documents the possibility that 75% of what we are doing today with secret sources and methods need not and should not be done.This book has much to offer those who would learn from history. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1455 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: E-sourcing: another tool for law enforcement?(Focus on Technology)
Author: Timothy A. Capron
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This digital document is an article from Major Acts of Congress, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1003 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.An encyclopedia of congressional acts from the earliest days of the American republic up through recent years. This reference work provides comprehensive information on the legal statutes that affect all citizens. ... Read more

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Child Support Survival Guide is a vital companion and reference for anyone, rich or poor, concerned with child support. It will teach custodial and noncustodial parents, as well as legal guardians, their options. It will provide solutions to parents seeking owed child support and choices to parents fretting the child support they pay. It is also an excellent reference for any Child Support of Family Law Attorney. ... Read more

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A logical & comprehensive guide for both sides of the issue.
I am a noncustodial parent who has made some serious mistakes on my case.While no book can correct these mistakes, I now know how to avoid them in the future & to handle the problems I have now.My mistakes?I paidcash for child support, I lost my job & didn't know I could have theorder modified downward, I lost my driver's license before I learned how tomake payment arrangements & get it back.All in all, it was a veryinformative guide & easy to read.I highly recommend it to all parentswho have to deal with government child support enforcement agencies.

Misleading in favour of custodial parents
It doesn't give any tips for non custodial parent

This is one of the most informative books I've ever read.
As a non-custodial parent this book has been extremely informative.I now know my rights and how this agency operates.It has kept me from making some serious mistakes, and all without consulting an attorney.I've alsorecommended it to my sister who is a custodial parent since I feel the bookdoes well in covering both sides of the issue.We both give it five stars!

Not at all what it advertises itself to be!
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This book explores a forgotten chapter in modern U.S. history: the false dawn of the communications age in American politics. The Office of Government Reports (OGR) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but after World War II Congress refused President Truman's request to continue funding it. OGR proved to be ahead of its time, a predecessor to the now-permanent White House Office of Communications. Mordecai Lee shows how OGR was only one round in the long battle between the executive and legislative branches to be the alpha branch of government. He illustrates how OGR was in the most important sense an effort to institutionalize public reporting. Given the diminished trust in government in the twenty-first century, the study of OGR could act as a model for reviving public reporting as one way to reinvigorate democracy. ... Read more

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Title: A Standard-Setting Agency and Environmental Enforcement.
Author: William S. Neilson
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Title: The enforcement of investigative subpoenas issued by administrative agencies: an analysis of common defenses.
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Written for newly appointed government agency heads and their senior management teams, Getting It Done addresses the environment of government. Part I of the book offers a straightforward to-do list to guide officials in their new leadership positions. Tips include how to act quickly on what can't wait, develop a vision and a focused agenda, and much more. Part II of the book provides short overviews of the fourteen stakeholders that government officials will most frequently encounter. These stakeholders include policy councils, Congress, unions, and the Government Accountability Office. ... Read more

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Chapters: Modeling Agency. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A modeling agency is a company that represents fashion models, to work for the fashion industry. These agencies earn their income via commission, usually from the deal they make with the model and or mother agency. The top agencies work with big-budget advertising agencies and fashion designers. They invest money into developing their talent so they can increase their status within the industry. These top agencies will help train models, get test shoots, layout portfolios, and put together comp cards (composition photo cards) and other printed materials models need. The agencies find work for their models by presenting them to designers, photographers, and ad agencies. The agencies are also responsible for booking the jobs, billing for the jobs, and eventually paying the models for their time. By handling the details, an agency allows a model to focus on modeling and not on the business end. Because modeling is a very competitive, fast moving business that extends beyond the traditional 9:00am to 5:00pm business hours, an agency generally conducts business 24 hours a day, to handle emergencies such as cancellations or rush jobs. Most agencies have a service or an operator to handle emergency issues after hours. Modeling agencies use booking departments to keep track of which clients hire which models. The agency has a phone that is manned and an office that a client can visit. These agents also send out reminders for fresh comp cards. They advertise, do lunches, do cold calls and turn over stones to find available modeling gigs. Most agencies sign their top talent to exclusive contracts in each market, which vary in length based on the model's industry status and experience. However, b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2067188 ... Read more

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Title: Clean Water Act: Longstanding Issues Impact EPA's and States' Enforcement Efforts.
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