The Leadership of Head of the Medan City Police Department in Strengthening Community Systems

Abstract

Leadership is the art of influencing human behavior toward organizational goals. Leadership is an art, but, like all art, it has its underpinnings in science. Especially, in Police Institution must require leadership art to strengthening the community's security system. This study aims to investigate the leadership model in Medan City Police Department. It used a descriptive quantitative method and a survey of 100 community selected by sampling area technique. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistic using the SPSS version 21 software to describe the leadership model in Police Institution based on community opinion. Findings show that the leadership art of Head of Medan City Police Department is good and use strengthening system such as developing communication harmony, many ideas, and good performance because able to reduce, prevent and eradicate criminal. Keywords—leadership; community; system