Also has the authority to assign work and perform monitoring to ensure proficiency and readiness of work. The type of management style in the sheriff's office “the top-down approach considers the overall police mission: to protect and serve the public” (Swanson, Territo, & Taylor, 2012). This is so because under Sheriff Gee's leadership the agency adapted the tactic (ILP), which has proven to be very effective in reducing crime according to the sheriff's office. The transition makes sense as the sheriff moved to the ILP, and one reason is that “Compstat- and intelligence-led policing is much more hierarchical and emphasizes a top-down approach” (Swanson, Territo, and Taylor, 2012.