In Florida, every law enforcement official uses planning, management and evaluation tools. For example, a patrol officer plans how to cover a route, conducts rounds or manages activities, and evaluates his or her performance at the end of the day. An agent plans what to do and how to do it before acting. Unfortunately, this same approach is not consistently applied across policing and security operations as a whole. In fact, although a certain degree of planning is usually carried out by all prevention agencies, the emphasis has always been on the management and evaluation of the work of agents; every sergeant knows how to manage a police force in such a way that the commander concludes that they are doing a good job. The main objective of the following discussion is to provide crime prevention personnel with information on planning, management and evaluation so that they can take advantage of these tools in carrying out their work. PlanningOne of the most effective tools a crime prevention unit has is planning. Police and security authorities across the country have come to recognize the importance of this tool as a critical factor on which the ultimate effectiveness of operations depends. Although there is no complete agreement on the most effective method of planning, there is general agreement that planning should be considered an indispensable function. Unfortunately, although some degree of planning is carried out in all policing and security operations, neither the substance nor the level of intensity of the process has been sufficiently systematized to realize its full potential. One possible reason for the limited application of planning as a management tool within such organizations is the false...... middle of paper ......, town meetings, planning programs call on radio and television and similar open methods. to all residents. Some police officials meet regularly with citizen advisory councils, ministerial alliances, representatives of minority groups, business leaders, and other formal groups. These techniques have been used by police chiefs, district commanders and ordinary patrol officers; they can be targeted as broadly as the entire jurisdiction or as narrowly as a neighborhood or a single neighborhood. The techniques used to obtain citizen participation should be less important than the end result. Community policing emphasizes that police departments must carefully seek and consider citizen input when developing policies and decisions that affect the community. Any other alternative would be unthinkable in an agency that is part of a government “of the people, for the people and by the people ».."