Pathology of Structures and Procedures of Police Stations by Lean Policing Approach

In recent years, attention to the productivity is becoming more and more important in policing. Lean Policing approach could be an effective solution for this challenge. Thus, in this research, we are trying to find answer for the following questions: What are the most important elements of Lean Policing? What are the problems of Iran police-courts' structures and processes according the Lean approach? What are some appropriate strategies to make improvement in Iran police-courts' problems in structures and processes by utilizing Lean approach?

This research is done in a qualitative approach and includes two phases: study of the literature in Lean. The second phase includes utilizing the devised model to find the problems in Iran police-courts.

According to Lean approach, we can achieve any level of optimization in any organization by continuously finding and decrease the waste elements as well as finding and increasing the value-maker elements. In this research, we utilized this approach to find the current waste and value-maker elements of Iran police-courts to devise some strategies for making improvements in structures and processes of them.

Lean, as a repetitive and continuous approach can be used either as a stand-alone strategy to make improvements in the organization, or on the other hand, with considering the current infrastructures that is prepared for current active improvement plans, Lean Policing can be used as a tool set in order to help achieving those plans. A strategical layout is suggested in this research for the second approach.